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Candlestick in the form of a Winged Genius
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
White earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, greyish- pink, red, purple, reddish-brown, pale brown and dark brown enamels. The figure is supported on a shallow square base with a fluted border round its upper part and a flat top decorated with a flower in each corner. The underside of the base is hollow and glazed, and has a ventilation hole in the middle. The winged genius stands on a circular pink plinth. He faces to the front with his feet slightly apart, his left arm hanging down by his side and his right arm cradling a brown torch ? (upper part missing). On top of his head is a bowl-shaped candle socket with a scalloped edge. He has shoulder-length pale pinkish-brown hair, and is nude apart from a white drape decorated with red and blue sprigs and black circles, and lined with yellow, which crosses his body at the front, and hangs down to the ground at the back. His wings are purple. The candle socket is decorated with vertical green pointed leaves and has a red feathered edging. The base has two reddish-brown lines running round its lower part, green fluting, and another reddish-brown line above. Two of the flowers on its top are white and two red with yellow centres.
History note: Puttick & Simpson, London, 2 March1909, part of lot 124; bought by Mr S. Fenton on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 24.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
First quarter of 19th century
George III or George IV
Circa
1800
-
1825
The figure could have been made in the factory of David Wilson, of Hanley, son of Robert Wilson (d. 1801), It was originally part of a set. An example with two different figures with the same kind of candle socket on their heads are at Wimpole Hall, National Trust, near Cambridge.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, greyish- pink, red, purple, reddish-brown, pale brown and dark brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Base
Depth 8.9 cm
Width 9.1 cm
cream Earthenware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with a blue line edging on the left and right sides and a plant motif in the two top corners
Accession number: C.931-1928
Primary reference Number: 76398
Old object number: 2998
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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