IDENTIFIERS
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id:	41574
accession number:	C.3032-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 11 November 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered on the visible surfaces with clear lead glaze with black speckles, mainly on the lower part. The circular low mound base is unglazed underneath and has a circular ventilation hole. There is a square aperture in the back of the base to take an attachment. The nun stands on her right foot with her left foot slightly advanced. She has her right hand on her breast, and with her left supports an open book She wears a veil over a wimple, and a long gown.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Mr Malcolm Stoner, London, on 24 November 1926 for £8 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Bequathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41574

PEOPLE
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nun

SUBJECTS
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reading
reading



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered on the visible surfaces with clear lead glaze with black speckles, mainly on the lower part
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.1



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Catalogo degli ordini religiosi della Chiesa Militante
Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991
The Henry C. and Martha L. Isaacson Collection, English, French and Italian Porcelain
Polite anti-Catholicism: nuns and monks in English porcelain
What did nuns read? Looking at inscriptions on 18th-century porcelain nuns and monks
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