IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41854 accession number: C.55-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Neptune with a Dolphin, press-moulded with hand modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in greyish-blue, pale greyish-green, pale turquoise-green, pale yellow, flesh-pink, pink, dark pink, red, purplish-grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The glazed underside has a central, circular ventilation hole. The high square base has five scrolled feet and a pierced semi-circular rocaille motif between the two at the front. The upper part of the front above this is pierced by three circular holes. Neptune stands on his left leg with his right knee bent and his right foot resting on a dolphin behind him, whose open mouth spewing water projects on his left. He holds a vase filled with water under his left arm and with his right hand holds up his drapery in front of him. He has a circlet of green seaweed over his long, purplish-grey hair, and a long purplish-grey beard.. His drapery is decorated with a pattern of gold daisies in shaded pink circles, inter-spersed with red and gold foliage, and has a turquoise, pink, and pale yellow striped lining, and a gold edging. The vase is purplish grey with two gold bands. The dolphin has a pink, grey, and red head with black eyes, and a greyish-green body with grey scales, and red fins and tail. The top of the base is decorated with applied leaves and four groups of flowers: pink, blue, pink, and red. The scrolls on the base are picked out in gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Neptune with a Dolphin, press-moulded with hand modelled details, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41854 PEOPLE ------------------- Neptune SUBJECTS ------------------- water vase dolphin water vase dolphin TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded with hand modelled details, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Le Gros, Pierre I DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Recueil des figures, groupes, thermes, fontaines, vases, statues, et autres ornemens tels qu'ils se voyent รก present dans le Chateau et Parc de Versailles, gravae d'apres les origineaux par Simon Thomassin, graveur du Roy Die Bronzen Augusts des Starken in Dresden French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated Catalogue Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman ---