IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76494
accession number:	C.984-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 16 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware figure of a woman kneeling, with her head resting on a pillow atop a small plinth. Her arms clasp the pillar and her head is turned to the front; her eyes are closed and she is bare foot. She wears a red-brown dress, edged with yellow around the neck. Her elaborately styled hair is held in place by a band of yellow, raising to green at the front (possibly a crown??). The base is green, rectangular and raised with ridged sides. The figure is moulded and painted in the round. The underside of the base is recessed and glazed, with a small central vent hole.
object type: Earthenware figure, moulded, lead glazed and painted with red-brown, green, grey and yellow enamels.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought at Graham’s in Brompton Road on 12 February 1912  for £1.5s (one pound five shillings) by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76494





TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, moulded, lead glazed and painted with enamels.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1810 - 1835
creation date earliest:	1810
creation date latest:	1835
culture:	19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 9.5



CITATIONS
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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
Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments
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