IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42643 accession number: C.3072-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in green, pale turquoise, pale yellow, flesh, pink, orange, red, dark purple, and brown enamels, with a little gilding. The partly glazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole and three patch marks. The oval mound base has at the back a tree stump with one branch bearing two clumps of applied red holly berries, and green leaves. In the back of the trunk there is a rectangular aperture to take an attachment. On the top of the mount to the viewer's left there are two clumps of red holly berries and leaves, and on the right, a bundle of pale brown sticks. The nude boy sits on the stump with his head turned slightly to his left, his left leg forward, and both hands held over a flaming brazier resting on his right knee. He has a ruddy complexion, brown hair and eyes. He wears a pink drape lined with purple ermine spots, which is draped over his head, and falls down behind, with one end passing over his knees in front and down over his left leg. The brazier is pale turquoise with a gilt band round the top, and yellow, orange, and purple flames. object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in green, pale turquoise, pale yellow, flesh, pink, orange, red, dark purple, and brown enamels, with a little gilding title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Hammond and Cardew's (?) shop in Petty France (York Street, Westminster) on 18 December 1918 for £16. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42643 PEOPLE ------------------- boy SUBJECTS ------------------- winter holly winter holly TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in green, pale turquoise, pale yellow, flesh, pink, orange, red, dark purple, and brown enamels, with a little gilding slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Old Derby China Factory Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3072_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_3072_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3072_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_3072_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3072_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_3072_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3072_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_3072_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3072_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_3072_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3072_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_3072_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels