IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42186 accession number: C.83-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Turkish Woman holding a Shell Dish, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, brown, and red, and black (for the outlines of the flowers) enamels. The underside of the roughly triangular base is unglazed and has a central circular ventilation hole. The woman sits on a rock holding in both hands a scallop shell supported on a hollow rock with spongy seaweed, and shells on it. Her left foot projects slightly over the edge of the base, and her head is turned to her right. She wears a tall pink headdress with shoulder-length veil, a white coat over a long floral coat, pink harem trousers, and red shoes. The large shell is pale yellow with a central floral spray and several detached sprigs. The support has green seaweed and pink and red shells. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Turkish Woman holding a Shell Dish, painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. 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/42186 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- shell shell TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, painted overglaze in polychrome enamels press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Eberlein, Johann Friedrich DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain Chelsea Porcelain, the Red Anchor Wares The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Meissen and other European Porcelain German Porcelain of the 18th Century 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 Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---