IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41611 accession number: C.3054A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 20 November 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, pale yellowish-green, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, maroon, pale brown, dark brown, and dark grey enamels. The closed base is unglazed and has a central ventilation hole. The rounded oval base has incurved and scrolled sides with a square aperture at the back to take an attachment. The shepherd stands in front of a tree trunk with a branch on the proper right bearing a few applied leaves and a berry, and on the left, a sawn off branch and four leaves. A sheep stands on his left, and a dog reclines on his right, looking up at him. He strides forward on his left leg trailing his right behind him. His head is turned to his right and he holds the bagpipe in both hands. His pale brown hair is tied back with a dark brown bow, and he has a pink tricorn hat with a maroon ribbon round the crown. He wears a white shirt with sleeve ruffles, a yellow waistcoat scattered with groups of four brown dots, and with brown buttons; a white coat with a polychrome floral pattern, a pink collar, and maroon buttons; blue breeches with brown bows at the knees; white stockings, and red shoes with yellow bows. The tree trunk and the top of the base are coloured pale green and brown; the sheep is pale yellowish-green and brown, and the dog greyish-brown and white with a dark brown nose and collar. There are applied leaves and two dark pink flowers on the proper left and front of the base. The edges and sides are picked out in dark grey, with wavy lines, dots, and strokes. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherd, painted in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £60 on 22 January 1917 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: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41611 PEOPLE ------------------- shepherd SUBJECTS ------------------- sheep sheep TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, pale yellowish-green, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, maroon, pale brown, dark brown, and dark grey enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1757 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1757 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.0 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain 1744-1776, A Special Exhibition of Documentary Material to Commemorate the Bi-centenary of the Retirement of Thomas Frye ---