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Woman representing the Sense of Smell from a Set of the Five Senses
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Woman representing the Sense of Smell, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Woman representing the Sense of Smell, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, puce, orange-red, brown, and grey enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed and has a small circular ventilation hole near the back. The low straight-sided square base has a projecting pedestal on the viewer's right side. The front of the pedestal is decorated with a spray of applied flowers and leaves, and on its top there is a two-handled, globular covered vase.
The woman stands barefooted beside the pedestal resting her left hand on the vase, and holding up in her right hand a small bunch of flowers to smell. She has long brown hair with a pink and green scarf over it. She wears a gold bracelet on her left wrist, a white bodice with a polychrome floral pattern, open at the front to reveal her left breast, a yellow petticoat with a long pink overskirt patterned with dotted puce flowerheads, and a drape of two shades of blue with a yellow lining, and gold edging. The base and pedestal are marbled in pale blue, yellow, pink, and grey, and the flowers are of various colours. The vase is decorated in pink and puce and has gold edges.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 25.8 cm
Width: 12.3 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Mid-18th Century
George II
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pink, puce, orange-red, brown, and grey)
gold
Details
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
prsumed lead
Lead-glaze
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.56-1932
Primary reference Number: 41857
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Woman representing the Sense of Smell from a Set of the Five Senses" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41857 Accessed: 2023-05-28 16:30:38
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Accession Number: C.82-1932
Accession Number: C.228-1918
Accession Number: C.3224-1928
Accession Number: PD.355-1963
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