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Andromache
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Lead-glazed earthenware figure of a woman mourning beside an urn painted in polychrome enamels
White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with very slightly blue lead-glaze, and painted in greyish-green, pale yellow, flesh pink, a little red, dark red, pale brown, and brown enamels. The shallow rectangular base is open and glazed inside. Andromach stands on a low mound beside an ovoid funerary urn on a tall pedestal with moulding round its upper and lower edges. She has her right leg crossed over her left, and leans towards the urn with her right arm around its upper part, and her left hand resting on its lower part at the front. She has brown hair swept back into a low chignon, and wears a long yellow tunic with green drapes around the low neckline and armhole edges. Her feet are bare. The urn and pedestal are pale brown overall, the mound is green and brown, and the base has a dark red line running round the outside edge,
History note: Underwood’s, Oxford Street, London, where bought in January 1905, for £1 5s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 23 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
Icrca
1800
-
1820
This is a very inferior version of the same subject as C.886-1928.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( greyish-green, pale yellow, flesh pink, a little red, dark red, pale brown, and brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( slightly tinted blue)
Base
Depth 7.5 cm
Width 8.4 cm
Surface Overall
white Earthenware
Press-moulding : White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with very slightly blue lead-glaze, and painted in greyish-green, pale yellow, flesh pink, a little red, dark red, pale brown, and brown enamels.
Accession number: C.887-1928
Primary reference Number: 76290
Old object number: 2338
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Andromache" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76290 Accessed: 2024-11-22 01:21:13
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