IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76246 accession number: C.866-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 24 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded in several parts, with modeled additions, and decorated with in clear blue-tinted, greyish-blue, green, yellowish-brown, and pale manganese-pink lead-glazes. A lion stands with tail between his rear legs and head turned to the right to look up at a half standing figure of Cupid mounted on its back. The lion’s teeth are bared. Cupid, originally with wings, is holding a globe in his left hand and drawing on it with a quill in his right. The lion is golden brown, the Cupid is flesh-toned, with blond hair and a blue quiver. They stand on a shallow mound decorated with green leaves, supported on a rectangular plinth with moulding round the upper and lower edges, covered with slightly blue-tinged glaze. The underside is open and un-glazed. object type: earthenware figure group, press-moulded with modelled additions decorated with coloured lead glazes. title: animal figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Madame L’Hote-Saintoin, 62 Grande rue, Boulogne-sur-Mer by Dr. J.W.G. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr Glaisher paid 15 francs for the lion on 2 June 1913 and 8 francs for the panther (already missing its rider) on 4 October 1913. According to the vendor, both pieces were from the same previous owner. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76246 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- lion Globe lion Globe CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: coloured glazed figures DATING ------ creation date: 1782 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1782 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 The Wood Family of Burslem Collecting Staffordshire Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_866_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_866_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_866_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_866_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_866_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_866_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_866_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_866_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels