Bust of George II, Richard Chaffers' Factory (attrib)

An image of Richard Chaffers' Factory (perhaps). Bust of George II (ruled 1727-60). Bewigged, and wearing armour, the Garter Star, and a cloak draped about his shoulders and fastened with an oval cabochon brooch, supported on an associated black marble socle. Soft-paste porcelain (probably steatitic), press-moulded and glazed, height 44.5 cm (including socle), height 34.8 cm, width 30.5 cm, circa 1750-1760. England, Liverpool. Rococo.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Richard Chaffers' Factory (perhaps). Bust of George II (ruled 1727-60). Bewigged, and wearing armour, the Garter Star, and a cloak draped about his shoulders and fastened with an oval cabochon brooch, supported on an associated black marble socle. Soft-paste porcelain (probably steatitic), press-moulded and glazed, height 44.5 cm (including socle), height 34.8 cm, width 30.5 cm, circa 1750-1760. England, Liverpool. Rococo.

Image data

Accession Number: C.7-1951
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 808 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 354.62kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:06:14 09:50:17

Key words

18th Century armour breastplate bust ceramics cuirass English Fitz_AA garters George II Georgian heads kings male monarchs monarchy moulded order of the garter porcelain portraits powdered wig Richard Chaffers Factory Rococo rulers sculpture socle soft-paste porcelain white wigs

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Bust of George II, Richard Chaffers' Factory (attrib)"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-205780 Accessed: 2025-07-10 23:52:41

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-205780
            |title=Bust of George II, Richard Chaffers' Factory (attrib)
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-07-10 23:52:41|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-205781

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_6_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Bust of George II (ruled 1727-60)"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Bust of George II, Richard Chaffers' Factory (attrib)</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>