IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76359 accession number: C.918-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale cream earthenware, moulded, lead-glazed and painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, and dark brown enamels. The figure is supported on a dark brown square straight-sided base which is closed and concave underneath and has a central ventilation hole. The woman steps forward on her left foot and has her right leg relaxed at the knee. In her right arm she holds a large cornucopia filled with fruit and corn stalks and supports its lower end with her hand. In her left hand she holds up a bunch of corn stalks. She has a tanned complexion, and wears a wreath of yellow ears of corn over her brown hair, which is swept up at the back into a bun with tresses hanging down from it onto her shoulder. She is dressed in a red tunic with elbow-length sleeves and pale green edges, a long dappled mauve cloak with pale green lower edge, and sandals with red straps. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. A woman in classical costume holding a cornucopia and a bunch of corn stalks title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: A.G. Smith, Wardour Street, London, from whom bought for £2 on 5 February 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/76359 PEOPLE ------------------- Summer SUBJECTS ------------------- cornucopia wheatears cornucopia wheatears TECHNIQUES ---------- pale cream earthenware, moulded, lead-glazed and painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, mauve, red, and dark brown enamels; the glazed underside has a central ventilation hole moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1820 culture: early 19th century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_918_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_918_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_918_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_918_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_918_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_918_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_918_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_918_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels