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Bust of Purity
Factory:
Copeland
Sculptor:
Noble, Matthew
Parian porcelain, slip cast. Bust of a young girl with her head turned to her right and tilted downwards. Her long wavy hair falls down on to her shoulders at the back, and she has a small lily on the right side of the drape over her right shoulder.
History note: Malcolm Clark, Pembroke Street, Cambridge
Bought with the J.R.V. Smyth Fund
Height: 33.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1984-03-12) by Clark, Malcolm
19th Century, third quarter#
Victoria I
Production date:
circa
AD 1869
After the head of 'Purity', a full-length marble statue of 1859 by Matthew Noble (1818-1876). The bust of 'Purity' was advertised in the 'Art Journal' in March 1870, for 1guinea, having been preceded by a statuette in 1868. The Crystal Palace Art-Union was founded by Henry Battam of Copeland's in 1858 and was associated with the Crystal Palace. In 1865 it was renamed the Ceramic and Crystal Palace Art-Union. Purity was particularly appropriate as the 'special purpose of' the Union 'was to produce and circulate pure and beautiful examples of British Art Manufacture'.
Slip casting : Parian porcelain, slip cast
Inscription present: 11/S is written with a horizontal stroke like a fraction; the c of Sc is raised
Accession number: C.11-1984
Primary reference Number: 137169
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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