IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41562 accession number: C.3029A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 20 August 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded and covered with greyish lead glaze with black speckles. The underside of the base is flat with diagonal striations and some glaze here and there. There is a circular ventilation hole below the lion's front quarters. The base is rectangular with a curved end, and a curved and sloping end. The lion reclines with its head turned sharply to its right, and its right paw resting on top of a ball. Its tail is between its hind legs. A pair with C.3029B-1928 object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Recumbent Lion. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Canon Bliss; a collector who had a living in Kent; J.J. Davis, 13 Snasgate (?), Dover from whom purchased for £3 on 22 November 1923 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: Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41562 SUBJECTS ------------------- lion lion TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded and covered with greyish lead glaze with black speckles press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 10.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 English Enamels and British and Irish Ceramics, 25th February 1986 English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection Bow Porcelain A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---