IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41590 accession number: C.3039-1928 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 on the visible surfaces with clear lead-glaze with black speckles. The approximately square base is unglazed underneath and has a central oval ventilation hole. The Muse stands beside a pedestal draped with a cloth on which is a globe which she supports with her right hand. She leans towards the globe and with her left hand holds a pair of dividers over it (missing) She wears a veil, a long robe with cuffs to the sleeves, and a drape. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of the Muse Urania or Astronomy. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Mr Palmer's shop in Bath on 30 May 1919 for £1 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/41590 PEOPLE ------------------- Urania Astronomy SUBJECTS ------------------- Globe dividers Globe dividers TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered on the visible surfaces with clear lead-glaze with black speckles press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1753 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1753 culture: mid-18th Century culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: 'The Muses Modeller' DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Some Early Bow Muses Bow Porcelain Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre: vivitur ingenio ---