IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76311 accession number: C.899D-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 May 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered in blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in green, blue, pale yellow dark yellow, pink, flesh-pink, a little red, maroon, brown, and black enamels. The closed underside has a central ventilation hole. The base is square with straight sides canted inwards on the underside, and is decorated on each side with a continuous maroon band. The young man stands on a rounded area of blue ice with grooved sides, which has a brown and green tree stump at the back. He looks down and turns his head towards his left as he steps forward on his right foot, clasping his arms and hands together in front of him. He has brown hair partly hidden by a high crowned black hat with broad brim which is upturned at the front. He wears a pink cloak over a dark yellow jacket and paler yellow breeches, white stockings, and black shoes with skates attached to them by red straps and bows. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. Winter represented by a young man skating title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 12 March 1909, part of lot 185; purchased for £6.15s. by S. Fenton of Cranbourn Street, on behalf of Dr J.W.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/76311 PEOPLE ------------------- Winter, Gillis de TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze and painted in pale-blue, greyish-green, two shades of yellow, pink, flesh pink, maroon, red, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamels; the closed underside has a central ventilation hole press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_899D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_899D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899D_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_899D_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_899D_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_899D_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels