IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41744 accession number: C.3064B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Figure. Soft-paste porcelain slip-cast and lead-glazed. The underside has a depression in the centre and some glaze, and a large circular ventilation hole, which has been plugged, possibly with felt. The wavy-edged base has a central tree trunk with a short curved branch at the front and two branches at the top, on each of which there is a bird. Low down in the back of the trunk there is a circular hole to take an attachment and a small hole between the branches at the top. The tree trunk is bedecked with flowers and foliage. A hound sits on the left of the tree. On the base at the back there are two separate flowers and leaves, and one flower and leaves by the hound's feet. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown 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/41744 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds Finch dog tree birds Finch dog tree TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain slip-cast and lead-glazed press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.9 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Derby Porcelain: The Golden Years, 1750-1770 Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991 ---