IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 39503 accession number: C.6-1970 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a market woman, appearing greyish-white, slip-cast with hand-modelled details, lead-glazed, and painted underglaze in 'Littler's blue', and onglaze in green, yellow, two shades of puce-pink, a little orange-red, and reddish-brown enamels. The unglazed underside is uneven, and has a circular ventilation hole which opens into a larger oval depression. The irregularly shaped mound base has two curved rocaille frills across the front, and a tall rock at the back. The market woman stands on her left leg with her right foot crossed over her left, and leans against the rock on her right upper arm. She holds a knife in her right hand, and has a cabbage under her left arm. By her feet on the viewer's left there is an applied flower, and a basket filled with cabbages, asparagus and carrots. The woman has ruddy cheeks, red lips and brown hair drawn back loosely into a chignon at the back. Her bodice is yellow with pink outlining on the stomacher. She has a yellow shawl and a pink floral patterned scarf round her shoulders and tucked into a blue strap across the top of her stomacher. Her pink skirt is scattered with darker pink daisies. Her apron is blue, and her shoes are yellow. The cabbage under her arm is green, the flower on the ground is orange-red, and the basket is brown with naturalistically coloured vegetables. The base has a pink and a green frill, and the rock is green. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a market woman selling cabbages, standing on a scrolled base, painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Margaret Statham died 1970 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs M. Statham STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/39503 PEOPLE ------------------- market woman SUBJECTS ------------------- basket cabbage carrot asparagus selling basket cabbage carrot asparagus selling TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted underglaze in 'Littler's blue', and onglaze in green, yellow, two shades of puce-pink, a little orange-red, and reddish-brown enamels. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.6 CITATIONS -------- 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 Obituary Mrs H. Statham Longton Hall Porcelain 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 Vauxhall porcelain figures The Roy Hogarth Collection of Rare English Figures ---