Current Location: In storage
Titles
Perswaition
Maker(s)
Potter:
Walton, John
Entities
Categories
Description
Lead-glazed earthenware, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, red, brown, and black enamels. 'PERSWAITION' impressed on a plaque on the viewer's right front corner.
Notes
History note: Captain Reynolds, London; sold en bloc to Messrs Gill & Reigate, London; one of thirty-five pieces bought from them by Mr Stoner of Stoner & Evans, London; bought from him with eighteen further pieces by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 20 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
19th Century, Early
George IV
Circa
1820
-
1825
Note
'Perswaition' is a charming product of the realistic school of figure-making which developed in the Potteries between about 1800 and 1840. Tjhe couple are depicted in an unaffected manner, as if the young man had decided to propose on a stroll in tjhe garden, or on their way home from church or chapel. The stylized tree behind them, known as bocage (a grove) was derived from eighteenth-century porcelain figures. It was a feature of figures by John Walton, who was baptized in 1780, and was listed as a potter in local directories from 1818 to 1835. 'Perswaition' can be attributed to Walton because strictly comparable groups exist marked 'WALTON' impressed or in relief on a raised scroll. The group may have been derived from a print entitled PERSUASION, published in 1809.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Materials used in production
Earthenware
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.957-1928
Primary reference Number: 76449
Old object number: 3204
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 2 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
