IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41462 accession number: C.6-1918 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 May 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, containing bone ash, flower girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels. The unglazed underside of the roughly oval base has a glazed ventilation hole at the back. The figure is supported by a tree stump which has a square hole to take an attachment. The girl stands barefooted with her right foot slightly forward, and her head turned to her left. She holds a basket of flowers in her left hand in front of her and with her right holds up her apron, also filled with flowers. She has brown hair on which is a black ribbon at the back and a small bunch of flowers at the front. She wears a black ribbon with a four-petalled black flower round her neck, a blue bodice with white sleeves and blue bows at the elbows. The back of her skirt is yellow with a black border round the hem, and the front is white strewn with puce flowers, over which she has a white apron. The top of the base is decorated with two applied flowers, each with three leaves, and slight puce scrolls round the front edge. object type: Soft-paste porcelain, containing bone ash, flower girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ralph Griffin creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41462 PEOPLE ------------------- girl SUBJECTS ------------------- spring spring TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.7 CITATIONS -------- The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Meissen and other European Porcelain Extracts from Eighteenth Century London Newspapers Meissen Portrait Figures European Sculpture and Works of Art Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 ---