IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43354 accession number: C.3065-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and lead-glazed, with dry-edge. The underside of the base is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole near the back. The low mound base is approximately circular and has a tree stump at the back with a projecting branch on the viewer’s left. Apollo stands with his left leg forward, his left arm extended in front, and his right arm extended to the side. His head is turned slightly to his left. He has long wavy hair and wears a wreath over it, and a voluminous drape caught up with a brooch on his left shoulder. On the ground on the viewer’s right is a heap of three books, a lyra da braccio, and a trumpet, and on the left, a painter’s palette and brushes, a hammer and another instrument. An object above these has been broken off. object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and glazed with dry-edge. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick & Simpson, London, 27 July 1917, lot 111 £2.5s.0d. (including a Bristol figure); Dr J.W.L. Glaisher 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/43354 PEOPLE ------------------- Apollo SUBJECTS ------------------- palette book trumpet lyra da braccio hammer palette book trumpet lyra da braccio hammer TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, probably slip-cast, and lead-glazed with dry-edge moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: Planché, Andrew DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain ---