Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Female Sphinx
Translated as: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Sphinx, press-moulded, and glazed.
Maker(s)
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Hugh Statham died. 1967; Mrs Margaret Statham died 1970.
Legal notes
Purchased with the L.D. Cunliffe Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Measurements and weight
Height: 12.0 cm
Length: 12.0 cm
Relative size of this object
Place(s) associated
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Stratford-le-Bow
⪼ Essex
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1973)
by
Collection of Dr & Mrs H. Statham
Dating
Mid-18th Century
George II
Circa
1750
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1755
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( presumed lead)
Materials used in production
presumed phosphatic and containing bone ash
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and lead-glazed
Glazing (coating)
References and bibliographic entries
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Schreiber Collection: Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels &c.: collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P. and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the South Kensington Museum in 1884
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Some Consequences of the Bow Porcelain Special Exhibition, Part I: The Alderman Arnold Period (Nov 1748-March 1750)
page(s): pp. 184-5
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English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century
page(s): p. 89
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Les Frères Coustou
page(s): pp. 195-9
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Important French Furniture and Clocks, 15th June 1990
page(s): pp. 40-1
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Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
page(s): p. 88
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Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre: vivitur ingenio
page(s): p. 51
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Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum
page(s): pp. 8-9
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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
page(s): p. 10
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18th-Century English Porcelain
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Apollo, November 1952
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Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman
page(s): p. 124
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Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England
page(s): p. 249
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Porcelain, Guides to European Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . .
page(s): p. 193
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A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774
page(s): p. 66
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.24-1973
Primary reference Number: 42280
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 21 September 2016
Last processed: Sunday 21 March 2021
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
