IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38095 accession number: C.3085-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 27 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Turkeycock of 'Snowmen' type. Glassy soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast (?) with thick, bubbly, clear lead-glaze with minute black speckles here and there. The flat underside is unglazed apart from dribbles of glaze round the front edge, and has a large circular ventilation hole in the centre. The rounded four-sided base has a rock at the back and three applied daisies in front of it. The turkeycock has his tail spread out, and stands on his right leg with his left resting on the rock. A vine bearing groups of applied leaves and bunches of grapes climbs up the front of the rock and over the back of the turkeycock, terminating in a vertical cup-like projection, perhaps to serve as a taperstick holder. There are three turquoise marks in the glaze, two on the rock below the turkeycock's tail and one on the back of its right leg. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Turkeycock of 'Snowmen' type. Glassy soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast (?) with thick, bubbly, clear lead-glaze with minute black speckles here and there. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased at Frome, Somerset in 1918 with C.3086-1928 for £2.10s.0d. by A.G.W. Murray, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, who sold them for the same sum to Dr J.W. L. Glaisher, also of Trinity College, on 16 October 1918. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38095 SUBJECTS ------------------- Turkey Turkey TECHNIQUES ---------- glassy soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast ? with thick, bubbly, clear lead-glaze with minute black speckles here and there slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1752 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.2 dimension: Width Beak To Tail units: cm value: 13.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Digging for Early Porcelain, The Archaeology of Six 18th-century British Porcelain Factories CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Longton Hall Porcelain Birds in European Ceramic Art IV A technological study of English porcelains Report on the examination and analysis of some porcelains from Longton Hall and West Pans Digging for Early Porcelain, The Archaeology of Six 18th-century British Porcelain Factories Some unrecorded drawings by Haydon William Littler at Longton Hall ---