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Little Boy: C.919-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Little Boy

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Production: Wood, Enoch (Possibly)

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Description

Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels

White earthenware moulded, and hand modelled, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in greyish-blue, two shades of green, yellow flesh pink, pale orange, red, lilac, greyish-brown, and dark brown enamels. The square straight-sided based is glazed and hollow underneath and has a central ventilation hole. Its exterior is decorated with two horizontal dark brown lines. The little boy stands on a mound in front of a tree trunk with short projecting branches and bocage level with his thighs. The front of the mound is decorated with curving blue and pale orange strokes. The boy has three leaves on top of his greyish-brown hair, and is nude apart from a black and yellow spotted drape with green edges which passes over his right shoulder across his back and under his left arm. In both hands he holds a lilac-coloured wicker basket filled with blue and yellow flowers and leaves. The tree trunk and bocage are coloured naturalistically and there is a blue and yellow applied flower on the branch next to the boy’s right side.

Notes

History note: Sotheby's, 12 June 1906, part of lot 256; bought by S.G. Fenton on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 12 cm
5.7

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Place(s) associated

  • Burslem ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

First quarter of 19th century
Production date: circa AD 1820

Note

In Rackham's 1935 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection the figure was attributed probably to Enoch Wood after the end of his partnership with James Caldwell in 1818.

School or Style

Neoclassical

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( greyish-blue, two shades of green, yellow flesh pink, pale orange, red, lilac, greyish-brown, and dark brown)
Surface composed of lead-glaze
Base Depth 4.2 cm Width 4.2 cm
Parts

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : White earthenware, moulded, and hand modelled in parts, assembled before firing, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in greyish-blue, two shades of green, yellow flesh pink, pale orange, red, lilac, greyish-brown, and dark brown enamels; the glazed underside of the base has sloping sides and a central ventilation hole

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: part of a rectangular white stick on label with blue lines on the left, top, and right edges and plant motif in upper corners

  • Text: No. 2432/Small Staffordshire/figure of a boy hol/ding a basket of flowers/out in front of him/b. at Sotheby's June/121906 lot 256
  • Location: On underside of base at the front
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.919-1928
Primary reference Number: 76362
Old object number: 2432
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 15 December 2023 Last processed: Friday 15 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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