IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76342 accession number: C.908-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, coated with blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in pale bluish-green, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh pink, orange, red, mauve, brown, and black enamels. The underside is open and glazed. Cleopatra reclines on an oblong mound base, painted in green and shades of brown to resemble grassy rocks, and decorated on the top of the front with applied flowers: yellow, and white, yellow and red, and red. She leans on her left arm and has her right bent over her head. Her left leg is crossed over her right. She wears a long white gown with a floral patttern, yellow lining and edging, which reveals her breasts and part of her stomach. A pale pinkish-mauve scarve is wrapped around her hips and thighs, and a green shawl is draped over her head and back.Her sandals have brown soles and red straps A green snake is wrapped around her upper left arm and bites her breast. object type: earthenware with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Percy Fitzgerald, FSA; sold Christie's 24 January, 1908, Catalogue of the earthenware collection of Staffordshire ware formed during the past forty years by Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W. part of lot 57; bought by Thomas Sutton for a hammer price of £14 14s 0d 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/76342 PEOPLE ------------------- Fitzgerald, Percy Cleopatra SUBJECTS ------------------- suicide suicide TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded in two halves with the head and arms moulded separately and applied, lead-glazed and painted in shades of green, yellow, orange, pink, red, and brown press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood & Caldwell DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 33 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures title: Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the earthenware collection of Staffordshire ware formed during the past forty years by Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W. Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Cleopatra of Egypt from History to Myth Ariadne and Cleopatra: Identities Transformed Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 The Makers of Black Basaltes The Wood Family of Burslem English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 British Ceramics and Staffordshire Figures The Herbert and Sylvia Jacobs Collection of 18th and Early 19th Century English Pottery, 24th January 1994 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_1_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_C_908_1928_1_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_1_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_C_908_1928_1_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_2_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_C_908_1928_2_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_2_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_C_908_1928_2_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_4_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_C_908_1928_4_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_4_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_C_908_1928_4_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_5_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 522 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_C_908_1928_5_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 654 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_5_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 522 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_C_908_1928_5_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 327 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_3_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 530 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_C_908_1928_3_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 644 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928_3_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 530 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_C_908_1928_3_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 322 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928__26_C_909_1928_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 545 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_C_908_1928__26_C_909_1928_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 266 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_908_1928__26_C_909_1928_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 545 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_C_908_1928__26_C_909_1928_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 133 pixels width: 250 pixels