IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76410
accession number:	C.936B-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 29 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, press-moulded, with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze (pearl or china glaze), painted in blue, two shades of green, pale flesh pink, dark puce, grey and black enamels. A woman representing Tragedy, standing on an oval base beside a tombstone with a skull in relief. She holds a dagger in her right hand and a cup in her left. She wears a long, flowing, sleeveless, green gown and a dark puce cloak draped over her right shoulder. The tombstone is grey and inscribed ‘Momento …ori’ [for ‘memento mori’]. The base is a pointed oval mound, moulded in relief with flowers and painted in green, blue and red. The back of the figure is flattened, but fully detailed and painted. The underside is recessed and glazed, with a central ventilation hole.
object type: Lead-glazed earthenware figure representing Tragedy painted in polychrome enamels
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: An unidentified owner in Wisbech by whom sold to Mr Wordinham of Cambridge; bought with a pair (C.936A-1928) from Mr. Wordingham on 8 August 1925, for £4, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76410

PEOPLE
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Comedy
Tragedy

SUBJECTS
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theatre



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, press-moulded with applied modelled parts, lead glazed and painted with enamels.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: enamel painted figures

DATING
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creation date:	1810 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1810
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	19th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10.4



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835
Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments
Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
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