IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42607 accession number: C.35-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 8 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure group of Europe and America, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in green, yellow, flesh, purplish pink, orange, red, brown, and black enamels and gilt. The underside is glazed except for the edge, and has a large circular ventilation hole off centre. The oval low mound base has a scroll at the back and a larger scroll and rocaille ornament at the front. On the left there is a five-sided pedestal with a helmet, a book, a pistol, and an open book of music at its foot. Europe, shown as a chubby white girl, is seated on the pedestal with her right leg back and left leg forward. She has greyish hair, and wears small gold crown, a pale yellow drape with red floral sprays and a purplish-pink lining, and holds a small orb in her extended left hand. America, shown as an androgynous native American child, with black hair and brown skin, sits astride a pale brown alligator facing away from the viewer, and leans back so as to look up at Europa. They wear a feather headdress and skirt, a quiver of arrows on their back, and holds a bow in their left hand. The feathers are green, yellow, purplish-pink, and red. The top and edges of the base are decorated with orange, dark pink, and yellow, applied flowers and leaves. The pedestal and helmet are outlined and picked out in gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure group of Europe and America, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in green, yellow, flesh, purplish pink, orange, red, brown, and black enamels and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth 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/42607 PEOPLE ------------------- Europe America SUBJECTS ------------------- pistol orb arrows bow helmet alligator pistol orb arrows bow helmet alligator TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in green, yellow, flesh, purplish pink, orange, red, brown, and black enamels and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1772 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1772 culture: 18th Century, second half# culture: Gold anchor period (1759-69) culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21 CITATIONS -------- Meissen China; an Illustrated History 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 Chelsea Porcelain, the Red Anchor Wares --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_35_1932_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_35_1932_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_35_1932_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_35_1932_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_35_1932_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_35_1932_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_35_1932_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_35_1932_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_35_1932_285_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_35_1932_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_35_1932_285_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels