IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76415 accession number: C.940-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, turquoise, yellow, pale orange, flesh pink, pink, puce, pale purple, brown, and black enamels. The figures are supported on a shallow rectangular base with three ventilation holes on the underside. Its top and sides are painted in shades of brown to resemble marble and in the middle of the front edge it has a rectangular label painted with the title 'CEPHALUS & PROCRIS'. Cephalus stands on the viewer's right leaning towards Procris and placing his right arm around her shoulders. He has short, curly brown hair, and wears a short pink tunic with blue edging round the hem and neckline, a long pale orange cloak with a turquoise lining held on by a dark brown strap, and sandals with orange straps. His bow, painted black, lies on the base beside him. Procris is seated on a rock with her legs extended. She looks upwards towards Cephalus and raises her left hand on his right upper arm. She has long brown hair arranged with a top knot at the front, and a chignon at the back, with tresses hanging down onto her shoulders.. She wears a low-necked, long white dress patterned with floral sprigs and spots, a pale purple cloak with a yellow lining, and sandals with orange straps. object type: lead-glazed earthenware group of Cephalus and Procris painted in polychrome enamels title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: A.G. Smith, Wardour Street, London, from whom purchased for £21.10s. on 6 December 1906 by 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/76415 PEOPLE ------------------- Cephalus Procris TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, turquoise, yellow, pale orange, flesh pink, pink, puce, pale purple, brown, and black enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1791 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1791 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Lakin & Poole DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Cassell Dictionary of Classical Mythology --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_940_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_940_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_940_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_940_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_940_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_940_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_940_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_940_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels