IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42387 accession number: C.20-1992 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 Fable Candlestick, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, two shades of green, yellow, pink, purplish-pink, red, pale purple, yellow, brown, grey, and black enamels. The square base has scrolled and pierced edges, and is supported on three scroll feet at the back, and two at the front. Its underside is glazed except for the feet. On the top there is a tree with six branches bearing applied leaves and flowers of the various colours, and has at the top a drip pan formed by six leaves, and candle-socket in the form of a flower with a calyx. The underside of the drip pan is green overall, and the rim of the nozzle has a circle of dark blue spots and a dark blue edge. At the back a branch curves down to the base to form a handle and has a horizontal purple pansy at the top to serve as a thumbpiece. In front of the tree on the viewer's right stands a stork with grey plumage and a yellow beak and legs, looking down at a reddish-brown fox, who stands over a spray of flowers on the left, and is about to eat from a plate which is dotted with pink and yellow to represent food. The scrolls round the edge are picked out in purplish-pink. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Fable Candlestick, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1970 (Statham Loan13-1970). Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M.Government in 1990 in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42387 SUBJECTS ------------------- candlestick Fox stork candlestick Fox stork TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels 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 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Alumni cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900 Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---