IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38096 accession number: C.3086-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Glassy soft-paste porcelain pheasant of 'Snowman' type, slip-cast (?), with applied moulded details, covered with thick, bubbly, clear lead-glaze, which has black speckles here and there, and is heavily speckled and 'dry' round the edge of the base. The underside is unglazed and has a large and deep oval ventilation area near the front. The shallow base has a wavy outline with a small rock or tree stump at the back and a large rock at the front. The pheasant faces to the viewer's left. It stands on its left leg with its right on the rock, and its long tail over but not touching the small rock or tree stump. A vine bearing applied leaves and bunches of grapes climbs up the front of the rock and terminates by the pheasant's right shoulder. The top of the branch is open to take an attachment. On the base there are two applied daisies with three leaves each below the bird's tail, and one daisy with two leaves on the rock in front of its left foot. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased at Frome, Somerset with C.3085-1928 for £2.10s.0d. by A.G.W. Murray, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, who sold them for the same figure to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, also of Trinity College, to which the latter added a Staffordshire figure of Cleopatra. 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/38096 SUBJECTS ------------------- pheasant pheasant TECHNIQUES ---------- glassy soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with applied moulded details, covered with thick, bubbly, clear lead-glaze, which has black speckles here and there, and is heavily speckled and 'dry' round the edge of the base slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain 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: 16 dimension: Length units: cm value: 21.2 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 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 Fine British and Continental Ceramics William Littler at Longton Hall ---