IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76271 accession number: C.878-1984 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A man stands holding a shotgun in his left hand and a pistol in his right, a package under his right arm. He leans towards his left and is supported by a pile of three barrels. The lower part of the figure is well coloured; above, it is mainly white with gilt and enamel decoration. He wears: a white jacket and shirt, edged in gilt and open at the neck; yellow breeches, decorated with a fine pattern of green spots surrounded by tiny red spots; dark pink stockings, finely painted in light and dark pink; black boots with red-brown tops; a red-brown and green checked sash; and a wide-brimmed hat with feathers, two pink and one blue. The barrels are grey, with bands of blue and gilt. The base is rectangular, extended to the back right, with ‘WILL WATCH’ in raised gilt capitals above a gilt line to the front. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded but undecorated, with a triangular vent hole 10 cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right hand, and lead glazed. Painted with black, brown, grey, blue, green, yellow, red, dark 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 1984, from the collection of the late Col R G Turner STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76271 PEOPLE ------------------- Watch, Will TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right hand, and lead glazed. Painted with black, brown, grey, blue, green, yellow, red, dark pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded but undecorated, with a triangular vent hole 10 cm from the bottom. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1865 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1865 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 11.5 dimension: Depth units: in value: 4.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 39 dimension: Height units: in value: 15.375 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.1 dimension: Width units: in value: 7.5 CITATIONS -------- Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters Sampson Smith, manufacturer of all kinds if figures in great variety: a celebration Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_878_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_878_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_878_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_878_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_878_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_878_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_878_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_878_1984_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels