IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76466 accession number: C.966-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Stafforshire table-base group representing Polito’s Menagerie. The table base has four feet and two central props; it is painted brown, with relief polychrome garlands all around. A yellow booth stands on it; there are lamps and gathered curtains along the front of the roof and the top of a grey flight of steps centre front. To the left are a monkey seated on a barrel organ: a trumpeter, who also winds the organ: and a woman in a feathered hat. To the right are two trumpeters in long and a drummer. Above the booth is a tall façade with an elephant with a castle on its back, framed by a tiger, two monkeys in trees, and a lion, all moulded in relief. The façade is edged by a ribbon with the impressed inscription: ‘POLITOS / MENAGERIE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL BURDS AND BEASTS FROM MOST PART OF THE WORLD, LION etc.’. The back is flat, with four vent holes just above the table-base and a concave curve to the top of the facade, all painted yellow; there are painted, relief trees on the sides. The underside is glazed but unpainted. Two figures, animals/birds on top of the facade, steps at the front and a central lamp have been broken off. object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr E. W. Giles of Fulham on 20 September 1911, for £9.10s (nine pounds ten shillings) 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/76466 PEOPLE ------------------- Polito, Stephani SUBJECTS ------------------- menagerie circus musicians elephant elephant CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31 dimension: Width units: cm value: 35 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 Property from the Collection of Josephine & Walter Buhl Ford II Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Elephants, Education and Entertainment. Touring menageries in nineteenth century Britain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_966_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_966_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_966_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_966_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_966_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_966_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_966_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_966_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels