IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42615 accession number: C.6-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of an Owl, slip-cast, 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 Loan 6-1970). 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 lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42615 SUBJECTS ------------------- owl owl TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in blue, green, yellow, orange-red, purplish-pink, brown, grey, and black enamels slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1758 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1758 culture: Red anchor period (1752-1756) culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.8 CITATIONS -------- Birds in European Ceramic Art I, The Owl Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 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 Important English Furniture, Decorations and Ceramics Splendour in the Grass, Birds, Beasts and Flowers in European Ceramics Zoomorphic, Phyllomorphic and Marine forms ---