IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76252 accession number: C.869-1984 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A man stands with left leg resting on an upper rock, his hand on his knee. His right hand holds a scroll. He looks away over his right shoulder. The figure is well coloured. He wears a short orange cape and a blue doublet over a white shirt, with pink and green striped shoulders. His breeches and the feathers in his hat are also pink and green, and he has a pink belt tied around his waist. His clothes are edged with gilt and his black boots have mustard-yellow tops. He has a moustache and long black hair. The ground is green and yellow with lightly combed dark pink touches; two of the tufts have pink flower centres. The base is shaped like a tear-drop; it has a gilt line across the front and on top it is moulded to form a rocky mound, with three applied tufts of foliage. The underside is concave and glazed, with a vent hole towards the back. The back is flat, decorated to the top and marked with diagonal scoring to the clay below. object type: White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded arms and hat trim and small shards of clay added as decoration. Lead glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue and with black, green, red, orange, yellow, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of the late Colonel R.G. Turner. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs J E Cameron, from the collection of the late Col R G Turner. 1984 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76252 PEOPLE ------------------- Byron Shakespeare Richard III Conrad Edmund Kean TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded arms and hat trim and small shards of clay added as decoration. Lead glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue and with black, green, red, orange, yellow, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a vent hole towards the back. The back is flat, decorated to the top and marked with diagonal scoring to the clay below. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 5.5 dimension: Depth units: in value: 2.25 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20 dimension: Height units: in value: 7.875 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.9 dimension: Width units: in value: 3.5 CITATIONS -------- Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_869_1984_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_869_1984_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_869_1984_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_869_1984_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_869_1984_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_869_1984_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_869_1984_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_869_1984_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels