Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Pug Dog on Cushion
Maker(s)
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain of a Pug Dog on a Cushion.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered overall with slightly speckly clear glaze, except for a small area on the cushion near the pug's back left paw. The pug reclines on a rectangular cushion with an incised border on the sides, and a large tassel on each front corner. The pug's body is in profile to left, with its head is turned round to its left, and its tail is curled up over its back. It wears a collar with an applied flower at the back of its neck.
Notes
History note: Sheldon Collection; purchased by Cyril Andrade, at the Sheldon Sale on 12 June 1919 for £15; sold by Andrade at Puttick & Simpson, 10 October 1919, lot 149; purchased by Frank Stoner on Dr Glaisher's behalf for £4.10.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Measurements and weight
Height: 7.5 cm
Place(s) associated
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Stratford-le-Bow
⪼ Essex
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1750
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1755
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Across Tassels
Length 13.2 cm
Materials used in production
phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered overall with slightly speckly clear glaze
Lead-glazing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: an arrow and an annulet; the symbol of the planet Mars
- Location: Under viewer's left back corner
- Method of creation: Incised
- Type: Mark
Inscription present: rectangular with cut corners and dark green line on three sides
- Text: No 4119/White Bow pug dog/reclining on a cushion
From the Sheldon Collection b. at/Puttick's Oct 10, 1919
- Method of creation: Inscribed in faded blue-black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
page(s): p. 384
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Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
page(s): pp. 93, 43
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A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774
page(s): p. 20
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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
page(s): p. 10
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The Rous Lench Collection, Volume One, English Pottery and Porcelain
page(s): pp. 130-1
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English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection
page(s): p. 101
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The Collection of Alice and Murray Braunfeld
page(s): 77
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.3030-1928
Primary reference Number: 41569
Old object number: 4119
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
