IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42241 accession number: C.86A-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 an Actor from 'The Blown Kiss', press-moulded, covered with very pale turquoise lead-glaze, and painted underglaze in dark blue, and overglaze in pale blue, turquoise, green, dark flesh pink, pale and dark mauve, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The glaze on the concave underside appears pale blue. The low, approximately circular scrolled base is pierced by five openings at the front. The man stands with his feet turned out and wide apart. He turns to his left and holds his right fingers up to his chin. His left hand holds his gown across his body. He has brown hair, with his queue in a black bag, and wears a white shirt, a long dressing gown of pale mauve fabric decorated with dark mauve and turquoise stylised flower heads, and having dark blue cuffs with gold edges and a turquoise lining. His dark blue breeches are decorated with red and gold floral motifs in reserves, and he has red slippers. The top of the base is decorated with two applied flowers and leaves, and the scrolls are picked out in turquoise, green, and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of an Actor from 'The Blown Kiss', press-moulded, covered with very pale turquoise glaze, and painted underglaze in dark blue, and overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Colonel and Mrs W.D. Dickson 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/42241 PEOPLE ------------------- actor TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, covered with very pale turquoise lead-glaze, and painted underglaze in dark blue, and overglaze in pale blue, turquoise, green, dark flesh pink, pale and dark mauve, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim maker: Filloeul, Pierre maker: Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.5 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Meissen Portrait Figures Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 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 Meissen Porcelain and Copies of the Eighteenth Century Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection British and Continental Ceramics A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---