IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42733 accession number: C.20B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Mercury, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in turquoise, green, yellow, pink, flesh pink, red, brown, and a little black enamel-colours, and gilt. The almost unglazed underside has a circular ventilation hole near the back, and four patch marks. The almost round mound base is decorated round the front with scrolls and rocaille frills, and rises up at the back into a tall heap of rocks or clouds which support the figure. On the top on the viewer's right there is a drawstring purse and three gold coins, and on the left, a bale of goods tied crosswise with cord. Mercury strides forward on his right foot, his left extended behind him, its toe resting on a rock or cloud. His right hand is raised holding a drawstring purse, and his left is held down and out in front of him, and originally held a caduceus. He wears a winged helmet with a pink crown and red underside with a gold edge, a white off the right shoulder tunic semé with yellow, pink, and red floral sprays, and a swirling pink drapery. The bale is pale brown, and the money bags green. The front of the base is picked out in green, turquoise, and gold, and the rocks or clouds are pale yellow and pinkish-mauve. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Mercury, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in turquoise, green, yellow, pink, flesh pink, red, brown, and a little black enamel-colours, 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42733 PEOPLE ------------------- Mercury SUBJECTS ------------------- purse coins caduceus purse coins caduceus TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over glaze in turquoise, green, yellow, pink, flesh pink, red, brown, and a little black enamel-colours, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.5 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 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 Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 24th April 1968 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_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_20B_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels