IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41610 accession number: C.3053-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Two Putti and a Ram, painted in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 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/41610 PEOPLE ------------------- putti SUBJECTS ------------------- ram ram TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Tebo, Mr maker: Toulouse, John maker: Toulouse, Charles DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852 Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3053_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3053_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3053_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3053_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3053_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3053_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3053_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3053_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3053_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3053_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3053_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3053_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels