IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76411 accession number: C.937-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Staffordshire figure representing Tragedy, standing on an oval base. A woman stands beside a tombstone: she holds a dagger in her right hand and a cup in her left. She wears a long, flowing, sleeveless, purple gown and a white cloak draped over her right shoulder. The tombstone is yellow and inscribed ‘Memento’ [for ‘memento mori’]. The base is a pointed oval mound, painted in green, blue and red and with ‘TRAGEDY’ inscribed in black impressed letters at the front. The back of the figure is flattened, but fully moulded and painted. The underside is recessed and glazed, with a central vent hole. object type: Earthenware figure, moulded and modelled, pearl-ware glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby’s, 12 March 1909, lot no. 187; bought for £1.7s 0d. (one pound seven shillings) by Mr S. Fenton for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76411 PEOPLE ------------------- Comedy Tragedy SUBJECTS ------------------- theatre TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded with applied modelled parts, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10 CITATIONS -------- 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? 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