IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76301 accession number: C.892-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, pale orange, lilac, brown, and dark brown enamels. The shallow square base is chamfered on the inside edge and has a large central ventilation hole. Diana stands on a low mound with a tree stump at the back. She steps forward on her left foot and has her right knee relaxed. She holds a bow in her right hand and with her left is about to draw an arrow from a quiver on her back. Her brown hair is swept up into a bun at the back of her head and long tresses fall down over her shoulders. She wears a long white dress decorated pale orange circles and small brown spots, which has turquoise borders around the armholes and neck edge, and a blue sash tied at centre front. The lower part has a turquoise lining and is caught up in two places at the front by turquoise ribbons and blue brooches to reveal her elegant legs. A yellow and lilac cloak passes over her left shoulder and round her back to her right side where it is tucked into her belt. Her bare feet are clad in sandals with dark brown straps. The mound and tree stump are mottled in green, turquoise, and brown. A yellowish-brown line runs round the side of the base. object type: lead-glazed earthenware figure of the goddess Diana painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Victor Benjamin Button, from whom bought for about £2 in 1905 by Dr JW.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76301 PEOPLE ------------------- Diana SUBJECTS ------------------- hunting bow quiver of arrows bow quiver of arrows TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, pale orange, lilac, brown, and dark brown enamels press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory maker: Wood, Ralph, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge A Collector's History of English Pottery English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_892_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_892_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_892_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_892_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_892_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_892_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_892_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_892_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels