IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41621 accession number: C.3054B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted overglaze in blue, pale green, green, turquoise, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, pale brown, and dark grey enamels. The closed base is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole near the back. The roughly circular base rises up on the proper left side into a rock with a square aperture at the back to take an attachment, beside which is a projecting branch bearing an applied flower and three leaves. The shepherdess stands on her right leg with her left foot raised onto the rock at the front. She turns her head to her left, holds her right hand up to her bosom, and with her left holds up her apron. She has a white cloth scattered with brown stars over her head, and a dark brown necklace. She wears a flowered bodice with a scalloped basque, a trellis pattern stomacher, pink cuffs with blue bows, and white ruffles; a flowered skirt, with a white apron, which is filled with flowers; and yellow shoes with blue bows. A small bag is slung on her right hip by means of a blue cross strap. A pale yellow and brown lamb reclines on her right looking away from her. The top of the base, the rock, and the tree branch are pale green and brown, the three applied flowers are red, with darker green leaves. The scrolls on the sides are picked out in dark grey. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherdess, painted in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased with its pair 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/41621 PEOPLE ------------------- shepherdess SUBJECTS ------------------- lamb lamb TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted overglaze in blue, pale green, green, turquoise, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, pale 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: 27.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Katalog der ausgwahlten und erstklassigen Sammlung Alt-Meissner Porzellan aller Stilrichtungen des XVIII Jahrhunderts nebst einem Anhang Porzellan anderer Manufakturen des herren Rentners C.H. Fisher in Dresden Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman ---