IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76382 accession number: C.920-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in pale turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, a little red, pale brown, and dark brown enamels. The underside is closed and glazed apart from the outer edge. The woman is seated on a low mound on an irregularly shaped oblong base with a tall hollow tree stump ton her right. She rests her right elbow on the stump of a branch on the lower part of the trunk and holds her right hand up to her face. She looks down at a large book on her lap which she supports with her left hand. She has pale brown hair drawn back into a loose knot on the back of her head, and has a delicate pink complexion and red lips. She wears a pale turquoise long classical style sleeveless dress scattered with brown spots and dots, and edged in yellow. The book has a brown cover and yellow fore edges. The tree trunk has four holes in the ends of broken off branches on its sides, and is painted overall in brown and green. The mound and base are green with strokes of brown here and there. object type: white earthenware, lead-glazed and painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Oxford for £1 5s 0d. on 9 March1901 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/76382 SUBJECTS ------------------- reading book tree stump book tree stump TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, moulded in parts and assembled, lead-glazed, and painted in pale turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, a little red, pale brown, and dark brown enamels; the underside is closed and glazed except for the outer edge moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 1820s CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 17.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 19 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14 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_920_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_920_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_920_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_920_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_920_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_920_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_920_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_920_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_920_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_920_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_920_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_920_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels