Female Sphinx
Translated as: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Sphinx, press-moulded, and glazed.
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
(Factory)
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash (presumed), figure of a Female Sphinx, press-moulded, and lead-glazed. The sphinx is supported on a high, sloping, rococo scrollwork base. It is in profile to left with the head turned to the viewer. It has the body of a lion, and its tail passes under the left hindquarter and arches over the right side of its back. It has the head of a vivacious woman, wearing a cap with frilled lappets, earrings, and a necklace; a bare bosom, and lion's paws projecting from laced cuffs with bobble edging, below which are suspended two large tassels. On its back is has a saddle decorated with small incised strokes, and with two small tassels (one missing) hanging from the rear side.
History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Hugh Statham died. 1967; Mrs Margaret Statham died 1970.
Purchased with the L.D. Cunliffe Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Height: 12.0 cm
Length: 12.0 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1973)
by
Collection of Dr & Mrs H. Statham
Mid-18th Century
George II
Circa
1750
-
1755
Decoration composed of lead-glaze ( presumed lead)
presumed phosphatic and containing bone ash Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding : Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and lead-glazed
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.24-1973
Primary reference Number: 42280
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Female Sphinx"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42280 Accessed: 2022-06-29 08:22:52
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Accession Number: GR.18.1850
Accession Number: GR.9b.1928
Accession Number: ANE.26.1975
Accession Number: GR.96.1937
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