IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140439 accession number: EC.51-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 18 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, painted in shades of green, flesh pink, pink, red, mauve, grey enamels and silver (now oxydised to black). The figure stands on an approximately oval base with a scrolled edge. The underside is concave and has a support running from left to right down the middle. Oceanus stands on his left leg with his right leg advanced. He has his right hand on his hip, and his left arm outstretched in a commanding pose. His head is tilted back slightly and he looks to his left towards the viewer. He has grey hair and beard, black eyes and brows, pink cheeks, and red lips. His silvered cap is trimmed with green ribbon sea weed. He wears a tunic which leaves his right upper torso bare, and is longer at the back than at the front where it is above his knees. The tunic is silvered, and on the upper edge has a pale green turn back bound with a double rope of pearls, and on the lower edges is decorated with applied green 'moss' and five mauve shells.His left arm is covered by a silver sleeve trimmed with 'moss' which is held on by a garland of seaweed passing across his naked chest to his left hip. A long green cloak lined with pink and edged with 'moss' is draped over his left arm and extends over the base behind him. Round both legs he has garters of green weed with a black shell and a semi-circle of pearls on the front. The top of the base is strewn with moss, sea weed, one black shell and two pink shells, and the scrolls are picked out in gold. object type: hard-paste porcelain, partly silvered, painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Mr (Frank?) Stoner in London on 14 May 1917 with Thetis for £135 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge; taken by Mrs W.D. Dickson on his death in accordance with the provisions of his Will. 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/140439 PEOPLE ------------------- Oceanus TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded in parts and assembled, with applied foliage and beads, glazed, painted in green, pink, flesh-pink, pale mauve, red, grey, and black enamels, the costume partly silvered, and the base lightly gilt 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: Frankenthal Porcelain Factory maker: Linck, Franz Conrad DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.9 CITATIONS -------- German Porcelain The Fitzwilliam Museum. An Illustrated Survey Continental Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector The Art of Ceramics, European Ceramic Design 1500-1830 Frankenthaler Porzellan Le modele inconnu d'une figurine de Frankenthal Der Kurpfalzische Hofbildhauer Franz Conrad Linck (1730-93) German Porcelain of the 18th Century Die Sammlung der Markgrafen und Grossherzoge von Baden, Band III: Keramik und Glas, 5-21 October 1995 Frankenthaler Porzellan, Band I: Die Plastik Porzellan, Glanzstücke der Sammlung des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_51_1943.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 539 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_EC_51_1943.jpg height: 705 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_51_1943.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 539 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_EC_51_1943.jpg height: 353 pixels width: 250 pixels