IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43350 accession number: C.20C-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Neptune with a Dolphin, slip cast, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, orange, flesh, pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large circular central ventialation hole, and three patch marks. The circular high mound base has a wavy edge, and pierced sides decorated with applied seaweed, coral, and realistic shells of different shapes and sizes coloured naturalistically. Neptune stands on a large white ribbed shell picked out in gold which rests on top of the mound. His left leg is forward, and his right extended behind him. His head is turned to his left, and he looks downwards. His left arm is raised to hold a metal trident (see notes). His right arm is held across his body and with his right hand he holds up a drape which billows out behind him. He has long greyish-black hair, and a beard, and wears a white, gold, and red crown on his head. His drape is white with a red, blue, and gold floral pattern, and is lined with pink. Behind him is a dolphin, facing to the right, with water flowing out of its mouth and down the side of the mound. Its scales are green, and it has pale orange-red fins and tail, and a round black eye with a narrow orange-red circle and a wide yellow circle round each. Its upper lip is pale brown with black markings. object type: soft-paste porcelain figure of Neptune with a Dolphin on a pile of shells, painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure group 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/43350 PEOPLE ------------------- Neptune SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin dolphin TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, orange, flesh, pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels 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 culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire des fonds français graveurs du XVIIIe siècle The French Bronze 1500 to 1800 La Statue d'Amphitrite et la suite des dieux et des déesses de Michel Anguier Some Parallels and Proto-types in Ceramics French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated Catalogue European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 ---