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Two Putti and a Ram
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Modeller:
Tebo, Mr
(Perhaps)
Modeller:
Toulouse, John
(Perhaps)
Modeller:
Toulouse, Charles
(Perhaps)
Soft-paste porcelain figure of Two Putti and a Ram, painted in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, dark puce, flesh-pink, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The glazed underside is concave and has a large ventilation hole near the back, and a small one under the viewer's right front corner. The high oblong base has five scroll and shell feet with a rocaille motif with two pierced areas between the front two. The top is decorated with applied sprays of applied flowers and leaves. The back rises up into a low tree stump with a square aperture to take an attachment. The curly-horned ram stands over the stump with its head on the viewer's right, looking towards the front. A putto sits sideways on its back playing a violin. Another putto sits on the viewer's right corner of the base holding what remains of a dark puce ribbon attached to the ram's collar. Both putti have black hair, wreaths of blue, yellow, and puce flowers and green leaves on their heads, blue drapes, and garlands of flowers and foliage across their bodies. The flowers on the base are blue, dark puce, yellow and red and the leaves are green. The scrolls on the base are picked out in puce and blue with a little green moss at the front.
History note: Mrs Williams, Alconbury, Huntingdonshire; Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, from whom purchased on 21 August, 1920 for £10 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
The identity of the modeller who marked To is uncertain, see inscriptions/marks, and documentation.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( flesh-pink, brown, and black)
gold
Details
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, dark puce, flesh-pink, brown, and black enamels, and gilt
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3053-1928
Primary reference Number: 41610
Old object number: 4488
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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