IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41540 accession number: C.3027-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered with lead-glaze, appearing yellowish-white. The base has a roughly circular ventilation hole which extends into the figure. The shallow, square base is deeper at the front than at the back. The actress stands with her right hand resting on her chest, and her left arm bent at the elbow and extended towards the front. She wears a headdress which curves upwards at the back and has a veil hanging down to waist level. She wears a chemise under a fitted bodice, a skirt with three tiers, trousers, slippers, and a long, fur-lined coat which is open at the front, and has furred edgings to the pocket slits at the back. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of an Actress in Turkish Costume. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 2 March 1917 for £12 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge 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: Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41540 PEOPLE ------------------- actress SUBJECTS ------------------- costume/fashion costume/fashion TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered with lead-glaze, appearing yellowish-white press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1754 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1754 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: 'The Muses Modeller' DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 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 The Important Collection of Fine English Porcelain, The Property of the Late Sir Bernard Eckstein Barrett, 29th March 1949 18th-Century English Porcelain English Porcelain and 19th Century European Ceramics, 13th February 1984 Early English and Continental Ceramics and Glass Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels Made at New Canton, Bow Porcelain from the Collection of the London Borough of Newham ---