IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76357 accession number: C.916-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 August 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded, coated with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, flesh pink, red, reddish-brown, brown, grey and black enamels. A rectangular pulpit, with curved lower tier at the front, occupied at the top by a sleeping vicar with his head resting on his left hand; and at the bottom, by a speaking clerk. Each figure has his right hand draped over the front of his pulpit, on which rests an open bible, each having 'chap' written at the top of the left page and ' +' at the top of the right. The clerk's left hand was originally lifted upwards as if blessing, but is now missing. The vicar wears a white wig and clerical dress - a black cassock with white bands; the clerk has brown hair and wears a brown jacket and a grey and black striped waistcoat. the bibles have brown bindings and pages edged in blue. The pulpit has a flat back and is dappled all over in two shades of red and reddish-brown and decorated with four small angels moulded in relief. The underside is flat and unglazed, with a large central ventilation hole. object type: Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels: a sleeping parson and his clerk in a two tier pulpit title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr Woolstan of Hyde Park Corner, Cambridge, on 4 December 1905, for 15/- (fifteen shillings), 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76357 PEOPLE ------------------- Hogarth, William Stevens, George Alexander vicar SUBJECTS ------------------- The Sleeping Congregation pulpit pulpit TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted with blue, flesh pink, red, reddish-brown, brown, grey and black enamels moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1835 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1835 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Wood Family of Burslem English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Property from the Collection of Joseph and Walter Bush Ford II, 6 October 2006 Songs, comic and satyrical Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 British and Continental Ceramics and Glass --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_916_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_916_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_916_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_916_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_916_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_916_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_916_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_916_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_916_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_916_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels