IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 137249 accession number: C.34A-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 10 October 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, lead-glazed, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, flesh-pink, pale purple, pale brown and black enamels and gilded. The glaze is slightly green where it lies thickly, and has crazed. The candlestick is in the form of a nude girl child supporting two scrolled branches terminating in candle nozzles and drip-pans, and holding a basket in her right hand. She sits on a high base with three elaborately scrolled feet, and a flat back. She is nude except for a polychrome floral garland passing across her body from her right shoulder to her left hip, and a blue and red band and bow on her left arm, from which is suspended a pale purple and gold drape which covers the lower part of her body at the front, and the top of her legs. Her flesh is shaded in pink, and she has pale brown hair drawn up into a knot on the top of her head, from which point a short green veil falls down onto her shoulders at the back. The candle branches, their nozzles, and drip-pans are outlined in gold, as are the scrolls on the base. Its top is decorated with a large purple and green butterly. On the back the edges are outlined in green and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain candlestick, one of a pair with C.34B-1932. In the form of a female cherub holding two candle branches and a basket of flowers, seated on a high base with three scroll feet. title: two-light candlestick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W. D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137249 TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1758 - 1784 creation date earliest: 1758 creation date latest: 1784 culture: Gold anchor period (1759-69) culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.5 CITATIONS -------- British and Continental Ceramics, 4th June 1990 Fine European Ceramics & Glass, 15th April 1997 The gold anchor Chelsea figures in the Museum of London ---