Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
CC License: 
Image use policy
Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).
FIGURINE
Unique ID: NLM-B39246
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
China pipeclay figurine. Naturalistically modelled nude figure of a chubby youth of indeterminate gender with small pert buttocks and a somewhat thickset torso; with tin glaze. The head, arms and lower legs are lost. This is probably a 'fairing' or trinket of German manufacture. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1820-1880.
Height: 42.6mm, Width: 23.1mm, Thickness: 17.0mm, Weight: 17.99gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1820
Date to: Circa AD 1880
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 42.6 mm
Width: 23.1 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 17.99 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 16th December 2014
Personal details
This information is restricted for your access level.
Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM27907
Materials and construction
Primary material: Ceramic
Decoration style: Figurative
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Laughton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8797
Four figure Latitude: 53.46256988
Four figure longitude: -0.69105302
1:25K map: SK8797
1:10K map: SK89NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
No references cited so far.
Similar objects
Find number: NLM-AD41FD
Object type: FIGURINE
Broadperiod: ROMAN
Copper alloy figurine. Solid cast figurine representing Mercury, identifiable from the stub of a wing remaining on one side of a skull-cap sty…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: LANCUM-EB3C81
Object type: FIGURINE
Broadperiod: ROMAN
A cast copper alloy figurine, probably of Cupid, probably dating from the Roman period 43-410 AD. It is male and has a chubby rounded face wi…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Find number: LVPL-C7C9F6
Object type: FIGURINE
Broadperiod: ROMAN
An incomplete copper alloy figurine of a youthful male, probably a satyr dating to the Roman period (c.AD 43-410).
The object is mostly compl…
Workflow: Awaiting validation
Timeline of associated dates
About Us
About our Site
Find us
The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.
T: +44(0) 20 73238618