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Apollo
Production: Lakin & Poole (Probably)
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels
White earthenware, moulded, covered with strongly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in pale turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, brown, grey, and black enamels. The figure is supported on a square straight-sided base which is hollow and glazed underneath and has a large and a small ventilation hole. Apollo stands facing towards the viewer with his left foot raised on the second of a pile of three books on the right of the base. His head is turned slightly to his right and he holds a lyre in his left hand and has his right over the strings. He has red lips and pink cheeks, and has a green wreath over his long brown hair which flows down over his shoulders at the back. His sandals are black and he wears a long white cloak decorated with red and black floral motifs and circles of black dots, and is lined with yellow. His lyre has yellow frame and a black base; the books have brown bindings and pale turquoise fore edges; the lowest book has 'Vol/I' in white on its spine; and the base is marbled overall in shades of grey.
History note: W.F.A.Wilson; sold Christie's 15-16 November 1906, Catalogue of the collection of old English pottery and porcelain formed by W.F. Wilson, second day, part of lot 235 (with three other figures); bought by Mr Thomas Sutton for 17 guineas on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 33 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1791
-
1895
This figure was attributed to Lakin & Poole in Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935), and the style of the figure modelling and the marbled base are close to those of a figure of Ganymede marked LAKIN & POOLE, Fitzwilliam Museum C.942-1928.
Thomas Lakin and John Ellison Poole entered into partnership in Burslem in 1791, and in 1795 were joined by Poole's brother-in-law, Thomas Shrigley. Thomas Lakin withdrew from the partnership in January 1796 and a year later the other partners were declared bankrupt. During the short period of operation their factory made some exceptionally well-modelled and decorated figures, many of which stood on marbled bases.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, yellow, pink, red, brown, grey and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( strongly blue tinted)
Base
Depth 10 cm
Width 10 cm
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with blue plant motifs in two top corners
Accession number: C.945-1928
Primary reference Number: 76425
Old object number: 2599
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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