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Description: | Artist: Unknown, factory; Date(s): circa 1755 - 1760; Classification(s): stoneware, figure, slip-casting, white salt-glazed stoneware, the figure possibly slip-cast, the base press-moulded; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.808-1928]
Description: White salt-glazed stoneware, the figure possibly slip-cast, the base press-moulded, and having a small round ventilation hole under the figure. The base is rectangular with incurved sides. Applied to its top is a shallow oval area of ground with on its left end a low stone or tree stump on which the Spinario is seated. He has shoulder-length hair curling back from his forehead, and is nude apart from a flower which conceals his genitals. He has his right leg outstretched and his left raised and bent at the knee so that the foot rests on his right thigh. He holds the foot with his left hand and pulls the thorn from the heel with his right. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | figure Unknown stoneware | Temporal: | name=third quarter of 18th century; start=1755; end=1760 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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