IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76465 accession number: C.965-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Stafforshire table-base group representing Polito’s Menagerie. The table base has six feet and is painted brown, with relief polychrome garlands all around. A yellow and brown booth stands on it; there are three lamps and gathered curtains along the front of the roof and a brown flight of steps centre front. In the middle, a woman is coming out of a door, there are two children in front of her. To the right are the showman, a boy playing a drum and two trumpeters in long coats ; to the left are a woman in a feathered hat and a man who winds a barrel-organ on which a monkey is seated. Above the booth is a tall façade with an elephant with a castle on its back, two monkeys in trees, a lion and a tiger, all moulded in relief. The façade carries modelled birds and monkeys along the top of a ribbon with the impressed inscription: ‘POLITOS / MENAGERIE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL BURDS AND BEASTS FROM MOST PART OF THE WORLD, LION etc.’. The ‘S’ of ‘POLITOS’ is reversed. The back is flat, curving up the back of the façade and painted brown. The underside is glazed but unpainted, with three circular vent holes. object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick and Simpson, London, 15 June 1923, lot 86, bought for £8.8s (eight pounds eight shillings) by Mr Mack for 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/76465 PEOPLE ------------------- Polito, Stephani SUBJECTS ------------------- menagerie circus elephant monkey musicians bird lion music elephant monkey bird lion music TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 33.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 34 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Elephants, Education and Entertainment. 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