IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76336 accession number: C.902B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 25 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly greenish-blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in royal blue, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, pale purple, shades of brown, and black enamels. Prudence is supported on a rectangular base which is hollow underneath. She has pale brown hair drawn into a chignon, with long locks falling down onto her shoulders at the back. Her features are delicately tinted in brown and flesh pink. she wears a blue headband, a long pale cream dress scattered with spots and floral sprays, a red belt, a turquoise cloak with a yellow lining and brown sandals. She stands on her right leg with her left relaxed at the knee. Her head is turned three-quarters to her left. Her right arm is extended to the side and that hand grasps a snake. Her left arm is bent at the elbow and the hand holds the handle of a mirror, now missing. The base is painted in shades of brown, blue and black to resemble marble. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: 1Christie's, March or April 1905; Mr A.G. Smith from whom purchased with a figure of Fortitude for £40 on 2 June 1905 by 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/76336 PEOPLE ------------------- Prudence SUBJECTS ------------------- prudence snake prudence snake TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly greenish-blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in royal blue, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, pale purple, shades of brown, and black enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Enoch maker: Rysbrack, John Michael maker: Enoch Wood maker: Wood & Caldwell DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 52 dimension: Width units: cm value: 28 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge William Kent, John Michael Rysbrack and English Ceramics Peter Vanina and Charles Gouyn: Two residents of St James’s St 1755-1765 English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_902B_1928.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 640 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_C_902B_1928.jpg height: 800 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_902B_1928.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 640 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_C_902B_1928.jpg height: 400 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_902A_1928_C_902B_1928_201008_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 885 pixels 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