IDENTIFIERS
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id:	39296
accession number:	C.7-1951

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain bust of George II, press-moulded, and coated inside and outside with very pale greyish-blue lead-glaze. The glaze has many brown speckles. The back of the bust below the shoulders is open, and the marks of paring away of the clay to make the wall thinner are visible. The narrow base has a large circular hole to facilitate its attachment to a socle. A small shallow fragment from another object has adhered to the underside of the right shoulder. The King faces front with his head turned three-quarters to his left. He has a long curling wig, and wears a shirt and neckcloth under armour, the breastplate of which is ornamented with scrolls and foliage. Over his left shoulder plate is the Star of the Order of the Garter, partly concealed by a cloak which is drawn in folds around his shoulders, and is held together above the Order by an oval cabochon brooch. The circular black marble socle is associated.
object type: soft-paste porcelain bust of George II, bewigged, and wearing armour, the Garter Star, and a cloak draped about his shoulders and fastened with an oval cabochon brooch, supported on an associated black marble socle
title:	bust

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Uncertain before Roger Francis Lambe (1872-1951), London


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by R.F. Lambe

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/39296

PEOPLE
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King George II




TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain (probably steatitic), press-moulded, and coated inside and outside with very pale greyish-blue lead-glaze, which has bubbled, particularly on the shoulders, and, here and there, where these have burst, small craters. The glaze also has many brown speckles. The back of the bust below the shoulders is open, and the narrow base has a large circular hole to facilitate its attachment to a socle. A small shallow glazed fragment, presumably from another object or prop has adhered to the underside of the right shoulder.
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory
maker: Richard Chaffers & Co.

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 44.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
CITATIONS
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Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
The Bust of George II
The King, the Nun and other Figures
Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum
Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection
Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P.,  and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
English Enamels and British and Irish Ceramics
Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . .
A Porcelain Bust of George II
Some Baroque sources of English ornamental porcelains
The George II Busts and Historic Wall Brackets
Alumni cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900
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