IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140247 accession number: C.3191-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, grey-green, yellow, flesh-pink, salmon-pink, red, mauve, brown, and greyish-brown enamels, and gilded. The underside is glazed an has four supporting struts projecting inwards from the sides, and a large round ventilation hole under the urn. The rectangular straight-sided base is decorated on three sides with panels containing swags of flowers and foliage in relief, held up at either end by a gold stud. The edges of the panels are bordered by gold lines and the top is grey-green. Artemisia stands beside an urn on a pedestal, resting her left elbow on its top and holding a cup in her right hand which also rests upon it. Her weight is on her right leg, her left foot is crossed over in front of it, and she leans forward and looks down. She has greyish-brown hair, brown eyes and eyebrows, and red lips, and on each cheek, a tear. She wears a gold frontlet and a salmon-pink, white and gold veil which hangs down at the back and is held in her left hand beside her shoulder. The lower part of her body is wrapped in a white, gold-edged garment, over which she has a tunic with a green and purple sprigged and dotted pattern, and mauve edges and lining, which reveals most of the right side of her body. On her right upper arm she has a gold and mauve bangle, and on her feet gold sandals. The square pedestal has mouldings on the upper and lower edges and is painted in salmon pink, pale yellow and gold. The urn is white with a series of green oval indentations on its neck, and gold lines on the edges of the relief decoration. On the front it has a rectangular panel inscribed in gold with the Greek words ΘΕОІΣ/ ΚΑΤΑΧΘΟΝΙΟΙΣ’. A brown-edged yellow shawl is draped over its back. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt. Artemisia mourning beside an urn on which are the Greek words ‘ΘΕОІΣ ΚΑΤΑΧΘΟΝΙΟΙΣ’ title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr George Stoner, King Street, St James's, London, from whom purchased on 7 May 1919 for £25 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140247 PEOPLE ------------------- Artemisia SUBJECTS ------------------- urn urn TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, glazed, and painted in green, yellow, flesh-pink, salmon-pink, red, mauve, and greyish-brown enamels, and gilded press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Factory maker: Beyer, Johann Christian Wilhelm DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 13 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Album der Erzeugnisse der ehmaligen Württembergischen Manufaktur Alt-Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburger Porzellanfiguren Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Fayence, Steingut, Kacheln, Fliesen, Ein Handbuch ---