IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42058 accession number: EC.13-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 4 April 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a black woman holding a Basket of Fruit, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted underglaze in blue, and over slightly greenish lead-glaze in turquoise, green, yellow, orange, pale and dark puce, mauve, purple, and black enamels, and gilt. The square base has a scrolled edge and four feet decorated with rocaille ornament. The concave underside is glazed and has a ventilation hole under the figure. On top, at the back, is a rectangular hole to take an attachment. The figure stands between two stumps, that on the viewer's right decorated with three flowers and leaves, and that on the left with two flowers, two buds, and leaves. There are two applied flowers, each with three leaves on the front of the base. She stands on her right foot with her left relaxed behind. Her head is turned to her right, and she holds a basket of fruit against her body with her left hand, and holds out a fruit in her right hand. She wears Turkish costume comprising a tall pale mauve headdress with a yellow lining and gold edging, a white open coat strewn with sprigs of purple chrysanthemum flowers and foliage, with a yellow lining, and green sleeves striped in gold, and a dark blue petticoat decorated with vertical gold zigzag lines and dots alternating with gold stripes. Around her waist is a yellow and mauve striped sash. Her shoes are dark puce. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42058 TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted underglaze in blue, and over slightly greenish lead-glaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, second half# culture: George II or George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 12.1 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain ---