IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42729 accession number: C.20A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Flame, slip-cast, and painted over-glaze in turquoise, pale yellow, yellow, pink, flesh pink, dark pink, mauve, red, brown, and a little black enamel, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole at the back, and three patch marks. The almost circular mound base has a scrolled and frilled rococo edge at the front, and rises up at the back into a tall narrow heap of rocks or billowing clouds which support the figure. Fame stands on her left foot with her right leg extended behind her, the foot resting on a projecting rock. The figure leans forward probably as a result of firing. She has wings, and in her left hand holds up a trumpet which she is blowing. Her right arm hangs down (lower part missing). Over her brown hair she has a red circlet with yellow studs at intervals. Her face is painted naturalistically. She wears an off the right shoulder, pale yellow tunic with a pattern of turquoise stripes alternating with vertical stems of dark pink leaves, and held up by a gold string over her shoulder. Over her left shoulder she has a pink drape which swirls around her body. Her sandals have red straps and black soles. The edge of the base is picked out in turquoise and gold, and the rocks or clouds are pale pinkish-mauve. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Fame blowing a trumpet, painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by J.R. Wardale, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42729 PEOPLE ------------------- Fame SUBJECTS ------------------- trumpet trumpet TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over-glazed in turquoise, pale yellow, yellow, pink, flesh pink, dark pink, mauve, red, brown, and a little black enamel, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, second quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 The Old Derby China Factory Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 24th April 1968 Derby Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_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_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels