IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41593 accession number: C.3049-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh-pink, red, mauve, pale greyish-purple, pinkish-brown, brown, and black enamels. The underside is unglazed and has a small ventilation hole near the back. The figure stands on a wavy-edged low mound with a rock rising up at the back which is pierced by a square hole for an attachment. The front is decorated with two applied red flowers with yellow centres and three leaves, one large red and pink flower with four leaves, and one red pink and yellow flower with a red centre and three leaves. Air stands with her feet slightly apart holding a drape behind her in her left raised hand and her lowered right hand. She wears a loose-fitting yellow dress with a greyish-purple lining, and a white flowered petticoat. Her long brown hair flows out behind her and her features are boldly delineated. The eagle stands on her left on one leg with its wings slightly outstretched and its head turned towards her. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Juno with an Eagle, representing Air, and decorated in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased in London from Mr Stoner (Frank?) on 25 November 1918 for £20 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/41593 PEOPLE ------------------- Juno SUBJECTS ------------------- air eagle air eagle TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, flesh-pink, red, mauve, pale greyish-purple, pinkish-brown, brown, and black enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: 'The Muses Modeller' maker: Le Hongre, Étienne DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.2 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 Die Bronzen Augusts des Starken in Dresden French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated Catalogue Versailles Gardens, Sculpture and Mythology Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures ---