IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76291
accession number:	C.888-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 8 August 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, moulded, covered with lead-glaze slightly tinted blue, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, dull puce, orange, red, brown, greyish-brown, and black enamels. The figure stands on a low multi-coloured mound supported on a straight-sided square base decorated with a reddish-brown horizontal line and the name 'Minerva' across the front. It is closed and concave underneath and has a ventilation hole in the centre. Minerva stands facing towards the viewer with her right arm raised to hold a spear (missing), and her left hand resting on the top of a blue-edged oval shield decorated with a grotesque mask in relief. Her owl perches beside it.  She has ruddy cheeks and wears a brown helmet with plumes on top, a green cuirass-like bodice with a red border round the square neckline, a long skirt scattered with floral sprays and spots, and sandals with brown straps. A billowing blue and dull puce drape is attached to her left shoulder by a brooch attached to a strap which passes across the front of her body to meet the drape at her waist on the opposite side.
object type: lead-glazed earthenware figure of Minerva standing with her owl beside her painted in polychrome enamels
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: W.F.A. Wilson; Christie's, 15-16 November 1906, Catalogue of the collection of old English pottery and porcelain formed by W.F.A. Wilson, second day, part of lot 235; purchased with three other figures by Thomas Sutton for 17 guineas (£19.12.6 with commission) on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


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
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76291

PEOPLE
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Minerva

SUBJECTS
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wisdom
owl
shield
owl
shield



TECHNIQUES
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cream earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, coated with lead-glaze tinted slightly blue, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, dull puce, orange, red, brown, greyish-brown, and black enamels.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: pearlware
category: enamel painted figures

DATING
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creation date:	1790 - 1810
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1810
culture:	18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 31.5

dimension: Width
value: 12



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
The Wood Family of Burslem
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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