Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Owl
Maker(s)
Factory:
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain figure of an Owl, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels
Soft-paste porcelain figure of an Owl, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in blue, green, yellow, orange-red, purplish-pink, brown, grey, and black enamels. The closed underside is unglazed and has a small circular ventilation hole in the centre. The shallow octagonal base rises up into a tree stump decorated at intervals with applied flowers and leaves. At the top it has two short lateral branch stumps with a few applied leaves. The owl, peering downwards, is perched on the stump. Its back is mainly white, and the rest is painted naturalistically in shades of brown, and grey. Its eyes pink-rimmed eyes have yellow irises and black pupils. The leaves are green, and the applied flowers are either blue and yellow, orange-red and yellow, or purplish-pink and yellow.
Notes
History note: 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 Loan 6-1970). Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Measurements and weight
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 9.8 cm
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(1990)
by
H.M. Government
Dating
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1752
CE
-
1758
CE
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, orange-red, purplish-pink, brown, grey, and black)
Materials used in production
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in blue, green, yellow, orange-red, purplish-pink, brown, grey, and black enamels
Glazing (coating)
References and bibliographic entries
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Birds in European Ceramic Art I, The Owl
page(s): pp. 115
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Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795
page(s): 293
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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): 38
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Important English Furniture, Decorations and Ceramics
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Splendour in the Grass, Birds, Beasts and Flowers in European Ceramics
page(s): 42
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Zoomorphic, Phyllomorphic and Marine forms
page(s): 95-109
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.6-1992
Primary reference Number: 42615
Old loan number: Statham Loan 6-1970
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
