IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41576 accession number: C.3034-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 1 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded with a closed base with a small central ventilation hole. The exterior is covered with translucent glaze, which is bubbly where it lies thickly. The nun sits on a roughly circular base. She looks down towards a large book which she supports on her left thigh and holds with her left hand. She holds her right hand over the right page, as if following the lines. Her left foot (missing) extends over the edge of the base at the front. She wears a long voluminous veil, and a long dress over an underskirt. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Nun Reading. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs E. Spencer, 'Old Village Museum' (in the old village) Shanklin, from whom purchased on 21 September 1922 for £3 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: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41576 PEOPLE ------------------- nun SUBJECTS ------------------- reading sitting reading sitting TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded with a closed base with a small central ventilation hole 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 maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 11.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 Good European Ceramics and Glass The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures ---