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Seated Sportsman
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Sportsman.
Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and very glassy lead-glaze overall, except for the underside of the feet. The glaze has black speckles here and there. The concave underside has a large circular ventilation hole at the back. The approximately square base is supported on two scrolls, the ends of which curl inwards at the back, and forwards and upwards at the front, where they have between them a pierced anthemion-like motif. At the back there is a tree trunk, with a long lateral branch on the viewer's right and short lateral branch on the left bearing applied flowers and leaves. The sportsman sits on the main tree trunk leaning on the tall branch on his left elbow. His left leg is straight and his right is bent at the knee and a little behind the right. He leans slightly towards his left. He wears a broad-brimmed hat, a neckcloth, waistcoat, coat, breeches, and boots. A purse is attached to a belt round his waist, and a dead bird and a flask are slung on his right side from a cross strap. The top of the base is decorated with applied flowers and leaves.
History note: Mr Fleming, Southsea, from whom purchased on 9 September 1922 for £2.10.0 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Height: 19.6 cm
Width: 13.3 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid-18th Century
George II
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
Details
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash ?, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and very glassy and lead-glaze overall, except for the underside of the feet
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3041-1928
Primary reference Number: 41592
Old object number: 3941
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Seated Sportsman" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41592 Accessed: 2022-11-28 05:48:14
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41592
|title=Seated Sportsman
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-11-28 05:48:14|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-41592
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Accession Number: P.15-1978
Accession Number: 1786
Accession Number: C.19-1954
Accession Number: C.574 & A-1928
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