IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41867 accession number: C.57-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Youthful Vulcan representing Fire, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, mauve, red, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside has speckled glaze and a central circular ventilation hole. The high square base has five scroll feet and a pierced semi-circular rocaille motif between the front two. On the proper left there is a tall brown and grey rock supporting vase-shaped brazier picked out in gold with yellow and red flames issuing from its mouth. At the bottom of the rock at the back, there is a rough-ly square hole to take an attachment. Vulcan stands beside the rock with his left leg forward, his right shoulder and arm forward, and both hands touching the brazier. He has brown hair and boldly delineated features. He wears a white drape with a red and gold floral pat-tern at the front and a red and black floral pattern at the back, which is lined with pink, and held on by a pale blue strap passing over his right shoulder. On the ground beside his right foot there is a dark pink phoe-nix amid red and yellow flames rising from a reddish-brown area. On the front of the base there is a group of three blue flowers and one red, with leaves, and on the front of the rock, a group of three dark pink flowers and leaves. The scrolls on the base are picked out in gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Youthful Vulcan representing Fire, 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/41867 PEOPLE ------------------- Vulcan SUBJECTS ------------------- fire phoenix fire phoenix TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain 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 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures 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 18th-Century English Porcelain Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman ---