IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76383 accession number: C.921-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in pale turquoise, green, yellow, ochre, reddish-brown and black enamels. The figure is supported on a low straight-sided square base, the underside of which has canted sides, and a closed central area with a large ventilation hole in the middle. The exterior is decorated with a dark reddish-brown horizontal line on all four sides. The woman, possibly one of the Wise Virgins stands on a green mound with her left leg advanced, holding a ewer in her left hand by her side, and extending her right arm towards the viewer. The hand and what it held is missing. She has long ochre-coloured hair swept away from her face into a low bun at the back, and with tresses falling down over her shoulders. She wears a yellow bodice and mantle with dark reddish-brown lining over a long pale turquoise skirt edged and spotted in black. Her ewer has a dark reddish-brown rim and foot, a spray of foliage on the side and spots on the shoulder. The underside is painted in reddish-brown with the number '43' . object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick & Simpson, London, 2 March 1909, one of three items in lot 44 ; purchased for £1 6s.0d. by S. Fenton 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/76383 PEOPLE ------------------- Wise Virgin SUBJECTS ------------------- ewer ewer TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1820 culture: early 19th century culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_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_921_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels