IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42264 accession number: C.23-1973 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Thames Waterman, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in pale blue, blue, pale green, bright green, pink, dark reddish-purple, purple, grey, and black enamels. The underside is concave and glazed except for the flat edge. The shallow base is roughly square with rounded corners and has at the back, a tree stump with a branch projecting to proper left. The Waterman stands with his left leg slightly forward and the toe of his foot projecting a little way over the edge of the base, and his right leg resting against the tree trunk. His left arm is stretched out, and his right is hanging by his side. He wears a black and green cap, a green coat with a gathered skirt, pink lining, and black buttons, a flowered waistcoat, a pink and yellow striped scarf, pale blue breeches with darker blue knee band, and black shoes. On his left arm he has an oval badge painted in purple with ADD. The top of the base at the front is decorated with flowers to match his waistcoat. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Thames Waterman, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Hugh Statham died 1967; Mrs Margaret Statham d. 1970. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Cunliffe Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum Grant-in-Aid Fund, 1973. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42264 PEOPLE ------------------- waterman TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1754 - 1754 creation date earliest: 1754 creation date latest: 1754 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 CITATIONS -------- Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Porcelain The Weekly Journal, 1766 The Constitution of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen, As Amended by the Right Honourable the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen Thomas Doggett Deceased, A Famous Comedian Bow Porcelain Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre: vivitur ingenio Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 3rd November 1943 Bow Porcelain 1744-1776, A Special Exhibition of Documentary Material to Commemorate the Bi-centenary of the Retirement of Thomas Frye English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Fine British Ceramics English Ceramics from the Elizabeth E. Stewart Collection, 22nd April 1994 British and Continental Ceramics A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_23_1973.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_23_1973.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_23_1973.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_23_1973.jpg height: 380 pixels width: 250 pixels