IDENTIFIERS
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id:	42161
accession number:	C.81-1950

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure group of The Fortune Teller, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in very pale greyish-blue, turquoise-green, green, pale yellow, orange, dark pink, puce, and black enamels, and gilt.  The figures stand side by side on a low rocky base which rises up in the centre of the back to support them. The bearded fortune teller stands on the left with feet apart, bending over the right hand of the young woman, which he holds by the wrist in his left hand. The girl stands on the right with her left arm by her side, holding a now missing object. Between them is a rectangular object, perhaps a book. The fortune teller wears a wreath of leaves and berries on his head, a dark pink coat with yellow lining, turquoise breeches, and black boots with a gold border at the top. She has three flowers on top of her head, and wears a petticoat decorated with turquoise flowers and puce and gold leaves, a yellow open robe with an orange stomacher and cuffs, and a trailing garland of flowers and leaves passing over her right shoulder and diagonally across her back to her waist. The visible shoe is orange. There are two areas of green on the back of the base.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure group of The Fortune Teller, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure group

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42161

PEOPLE
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fortune teller
girl

SUBJECTS
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wreath
fox hunting
wreath
fox hunting



TECHNIQUES
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Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1752 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1752
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
maker: 'The Muses Modeller'
maker: Aveline, Pierre Alexandre
maker: Boucher, François

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 14.2



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
CITATIONS
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Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
Bow Porcelain
Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle
L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild
Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
18th-Century English Porcelain
Some Consequences of the Bow Porcelain Special Exhibition, Part I: The Alderman Arnold Period (Nov 1748-March 1750)
Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures
Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman
Ceramics. 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces
English Pottery and Porcelain and 19th Century Ceramics, 13th June 1983
The Rous Lench Collection, Volume One, English Pottery and Porcelain
British Ceramics, 18th May 1992
English and Continental Ceramics and Glass, 15th November 1994
Made at New Canton, Bow Porcelain from the Collection of the London Borough of Newham
Fine British Ceramics
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