IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76467 accession number: C.967-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 24 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Large animal figure group of a tiger holding the head of a lifeless soldier in its mouth, standing on a rectangular table base. The tiger is yellow with dark vertical markings; a dark stripe along its back runs down the face, which is framed by prominent white whiskers. The soldier has a red uniform, yellow breeches and epaulettes, white stockings and black boots, and wears a pink sash around his waist; his right arm falls down across his body. The base is a grass green rectangular plinth supported on a grey sponged table base which has six feet, a moulded polychrome swag frieze and on the front two raised ovals with the impressed inscription ‘THE.DEATH’ and ‘OF.MUNROW’. The underside is recessed and glazed. object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded with modelled additions, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr Wordingham, Cambridge dealer, on 3 April 1921, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. £15 paid for this and a companion piece ‘The Roring Lion’. Both pieces said to have come from Cromer Hall. 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/76467 PEOPLE ------------------- Munro, Hugh SUBJECTS ------------------- India Tipoo's Tiger Tiger soldiers Tiger soldiers TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1835 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1835 culture: 19th Century, second quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Earle Collection of early Staffordshire pottery Collecting Staffordshire Pottery Property from the Collection of Josephine & Walter Buhl Ford II T Sutton Collection, 25 May 2005 Collection of the English Country House, 7 April 2004 Staffordshire Figures, 10 October 1989 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_967_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_967_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_967_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_967_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_967_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_967_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_967_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_967_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels