IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76255
accession number:	C.870-1984

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Shakespeare stands, leaning his left elbow on a column and crossing his left leg over his right; he holds a scroll in his left hand. The figure is well coloured. He wears a long flesh-pink coat with orange lining; a blue under-jacket decorated in gold; breeches which are finely painted in shades of green; a white shirt with broad collar; pale blue stockings and black shoes. His clothing is edged in gilt and there are gilt laces on his shoes. He is balding, with short black hair and a trimmed beard and moustache. The pillar has brown and flesh-pink bands. Black marks indicate writing on the scroll. The rectangular base has rounded corners and a vertical concavity to the front, in the centre of which is a gilt motif comprising a dot enclosed by two vertical bracket lines, with eight small gilt lines to either side. There is additional gilt decoration of four dots and a line on each side of the base front. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is partly moulded and coloured, with a vent hole 5 cm from the bottom.
object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts with separately moulded left arm and leg, right hand, and scroll, and pearlware glazed. Painted in under-glaze blue and in black, green, orange, brown and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the collection of the late Colonel R.G. Turner. Given by Mrs J E Campbell, 1984.


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
creditline: Given by Mrs J.E.Cameron, from the collection of Col R.G.Turner, 1984

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76255

PEOPLE
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Milton, John
Shakespeare, William




TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware moulded in three parts with separately moulded left arm and leg, right hand, and scroll, and pearlware glazed. Painted in under-glaze blue and in black, green, orange, brown and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is partly moulded and coloured, with a vent hole 5 cm from the bottom.
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1840 - 1850
creation date earliest:	1840
creation date latest:	1850
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victoria I

CREATORS
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maker: John & Rebecca Lloyd

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 8

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 3.125

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 23.3

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 9.25

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 11.4

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 4.5



CITATIONS
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Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era
Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters
The Victorian Staffordshire Figure
Staffordshire Portrait Figures
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