IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76732 accession number: C.2368-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 15 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in pale blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, dark puce, and manganese-brown enamels (petit feu colours). The figure stands on a shallow square base which is hollow underneath, and is painted on top in green and manganese--brown to resemble stones and plants. Ceres stands on her left foot with her right knee relaxed so that the foot is a little behind the other. She looks downwards slightly, and holds a sheaf of corn upright in both hands, so that it rests against her right shoulder. She has brown hair, and wears a yellow stephane headdress made of ears of corn, a long dress with diagonal pink, blue and white stripes, cattered with dark puce flowers and leaves. A pale turquoise cloak is wrapped around her body and falls down to the ground at the back. Its upper end is draped over her right shoulder. object type: tin-glazed earthenware figure of Ceres standing on a square base, holding a sheaf of corn in her arms, painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: bought about 1899 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/76732 PEOPLE ------------------- Ceres SUBJECTS ------------------- summer summer TECHNIQUES ---------- pale buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in pale blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, dark puce, pale manganese-brown` and brown enamels. The base is open underneath and has a large hole leading into the body of the figure. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1875 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1875 culture: 19th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Hannong factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2368_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2368_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2368_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2368_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2368_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2368_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2368_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2368_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2368_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2368_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2368_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2368_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2368_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2368_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2368_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2368_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels