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Lucretia
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Earthenware with blue-tinted lead-glaze painted in enamels. A nude woman reclining face downwards on a couch, the base titled LUCRETIA
Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, and brown enamels. The model is supported on a shallow rectangular base with straight sides, which is decorated with a red line on the outer edge, and has the name LUCRETIA impressed at centre front. The underside is open and covered with strongly blue-tinted glaze. Lucretia, nude except for a yellowish-brown kerchief wrapped round her head, reclines elegantly on a couch on her right hip with her legs extended and bent at the knee, her upper body facing downwards, her right arm raised and bent, and her face resting on a yellow cushion at the raised left end of the couch, which is decorated on its lower edge with volutes and has a projecting male mask on the upper edge at the front. It is partly covered by a flowered drape which extends over the couch under Lucretia.
History note: Captain Reynolds collection; sold en bloc to Messrs Gill & Reigate; one of thirty-five pieces bought from them by Mr George Stoner; bought from him for £6.10s. 0d. on 8 June 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 9.9 cm
Height: 12.8 cm
Length: 29.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 18th or early 19th century
Circa
1790
-
1820
The model is a close copy of an alabaster sculpture of a Sleeping Nymph of about 1560 attributed to the Flemish sculpture Guglielmus Paludanus (Willem van den Broecke, 1530-79) since 1978 in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. BK-1979-7), purchased at Sotheby's London, 14 December 1978, Medieval Works of Art, Gothic Sculpture, Renaissance Bronzes and Sculpture, Small Baroque Sculpture, p. 65, lot 160. Its size is 12.4 x 32.3 x 11.1 cm. The potter would probably have acquired a plaster cast of the sculpture from which to make moulds for the figures.
When purchased in 1910 by Dr Glaisher, the dealer considered that this figure might have been made by Neale & Co. of Hanley, probably because that firm produced a black basalt model of similar design, known marked NEALE & Co impressed. Rackham, in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935) associated it with a group of Charity marked WEDGWOOD, now considered to be probably made in Ralph Wedgwood's factory at Burslem. A similar figure without the impressed name, attributed to Staffordsihre, c. 1800-30, is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, C.184-1910; another example is C.51-1967.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, yellowish-brown, and brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( strongly blue-tinted)
pale cream Earthenware
Press-moulding : Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, covered with strongly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, yellowish-brown, and brown enamels.
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with blue edges and plant motif in top corners
Accession number: C.925-1928
Primary reference Number: 76392
Old object number: 3117
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: M.9-2006
Accession Number: P.735-1985
Accession Number: 914
Accession Number: EC.33-1941
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