IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41575 accession number: C.3033-1928 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 clear-glazed on the visible surfaces. The closed base is unglazed and has a central ventilation hole. The nun is seated on a low mound with a square hole in the back to take an attachment. She looks down towards a large book which she holds in both hands. Her left foot projects over the edge of the base at the front. She wears a long, voluminous veil, and a long dress. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Nun or Abbess Reading. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: J. Hutchinson, Esq., FRCS, 1 Park Crescent, W1; sold Sotheby's, 24 November 1921, lot 81; sold for £3 to 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 J.W.L. Glaisher STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41575 PEOPLE ------------------- nun abbess SUBJECTS ------------------- reading reading TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and clear-glazed on the visible surfaces 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: Depth units: cm value: 11.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991 English and Continental Ceramics A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3033_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3033_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3033_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3033_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3033_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3033_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3033_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3033_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels