IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76236
accession number:	C.858-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 21 February 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and painted with translucent blue-tinted, blue, pale green, and brown lead-glazes. The underside of the glazed base is closed and concave with a central ventilation hole. The shepherdess stands on a roughly circular mound with a rococo style scrolled and frilled edge, and a grassy top. She faces to the front, holding her left hand up to her breast. Her right arm is missing. She has brown hair, and wears a shallow-brimmed round hat with a blue edging. Her white jacket has a basque and  is edged with blue, and there is blue lacing across the stomacher. Her skirt has a green looped up layer at the top, and is long and brown at the back. Her petticoat is bluish white. The lamb lies on her right looking upwards. Its eyes are outlined in blue.
object type: earthenware figure of a shepherdess accompanied by a lamb decorated with coloured lead-glazes
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76236





CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: coloured glazed figures
category: pearlware

DATING
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creation date:	1785 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1785
creation date latest:	1800

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
value: 22.5

dimension: Width
value: 8.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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