IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41511 accession number: C.3026B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded and hand-modelled, with clear, iron-speckled glaze. The figure is on a shallow square base with cut-corners, decorated with an incised diamond diaper pattern, and having at centre back a broken pedestal with a stepped base. The underside of the base is rough and has a deep depression under the pedestal. The edges have been flattened and wiped free of glaze; the central area is glazed. The actor is clean-shaven and has long hair drawn into a waist-length queue with a bow at the bottom. He stands with his feet wide apart, the left behind the right, and his hands concealed beneath the uplifted skirts of his waistcoat. He wears a tricorn hat with fringing at the corners, a full-skirted coat, a long waistcoat trimmed with bobbles, shoes with straps and buckles, and a low-slung sword. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Henry Woodward as 'The Fine Gentleman' in Lethe. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 21 March 1917 for £125 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher. 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/41511 PEOPLE ------------------- Woodward, Henry actor SUBJECTS ------------------- acting acting TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded and hand-modelled, with clear, iron-speckled glaze press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Mosely, Charles maker: Worlidge, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge European Porcelain of the 18th Century Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures William Duesbury's London Account Book 1751-1753 Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre: vivitur ingenio Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum 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 Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection English Ceramics 1580-1830, A Commemorative Catalogue to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle 1927-1977 Bow Porcelain Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . . English and Continental Ceramics Belton House, Lincolnshire Made at New Canton, Bow Porcelain from the Collection of the London Borough of Newham Marketing Celebrity: Porcelain and Theatrical Display John De Lanauze and others associated with the Bow factory --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_3026B_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 513 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_3026B_1928.jpg height: 741 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_3026B_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 513 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_3026B_1928.jpg height: 370 pixels width: 250 pixels