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Hygieia
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Lead-glazed earthenware figure of Hygieia painted in polychrome enamels
White earthenware, press-moulded, with blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted in blue, turquoise, two shades of green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, red, reddish-brown, and brown enamels. The figure is supported on a mound on a square straight-sided base, which is open and glazed inside, and has a reddish-brown line running round the outside. The goddess Hygieia stands on the mound beside a rectangular altar with flames rising from its top. She is turning slightly to her left, and holds a ewer in her right hand and on her left arm has a green coiled snake which she holds over the altar. She has pink cheeks, and brown hair which is swept back into a bun at the back with three tresses falling down over her shoulders. She wears a low-necked yellow dress with turquoise edgings which is long at the back, and drawn sideways at the front to show a long white skirt decorated with puce floral sprays and blue dots. Her feet are clad in sandals with reddish-brown straps. The mound is coloured green and brown with four turquoise leaves at the front, and the altar has horizontal blue bands below the top moulding and above the bottom moulding.
History note: Bought in Cannon Street, City in 1892 with another figure for £1.15s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 9.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1790
-
1810
Hygieia was the ancient Greek goddess of health, and was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. In classical sculpture she was often shown holding or feeding a snake.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, turquoise, two shades of green, yellow, flesh pink, puce, red, reddish-brown, and brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( slightly tinted blue)
Base
Depth 7.2 cm
Width 8.4 cm
Surface Overall
white Earthenware
Press-moulding : White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, two shades of green, yellow, flesh pink, puce, red, reddish-brown, and brown enamels
Accession number: C.895-1928
Primary reference Number: 76304
Old object number: 299
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) "Hygieia" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76304 Accessed: 2024-11-21 21:29:20
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