IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43376 accession number: C.3069-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with thick lead-glaze which has pooled here and there on the base, and has many minute black speckles, painted in yellowish-green, yellow, rose-pink, puce, orange-red, purple, and brown enamels. The underside is unglazed and rough, and has a large circular ventilation hole through which the interior fo the figure is visible. The roughly square base is edged by frilled scrolls flanking a pierced shell asymmetrically placed at the front. At the back it rises up into a tree stump which is pierced by a circular hole to take an attachment, probably a candle branch. Applied to the top of the base there is a group of three flowers and three leaves, and a group of two flowers and two leaves. The young man is seated on the stump with his right leg extended to the side and his left foot forward. He turns his head to his left, and with his left hand caresses the head of a dog which has its front paws on his left thigh. He holds his other hand over his right thigh. He has brown hair and eyes, pale pink cheeks, and a pale red mouth. His hair is tied back with a purple bow with long tails. He wears a shirt with a ruffled neck and sleeves, a yellow waistcoat with purple buttons, a white jacked decorated with floral bouquets and sprigs, a yellow collar, and purple buttons, and matching breeches with red bands and a yellow flower on each knee. He has white stockings, and yellow shoes with a puce and white flower on each. The dog is white with brown patches. The scrolls and shell round the base are picked out in puce. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a seated man caressing a dog, painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 1 May 1925,Chinese blue and white porcelain; European pottery and porcelain, lot 85. Purchased by Hunt for £6 for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge 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/43376 PEOPLE ------------------- man SUBJECTS ------------------- dog sitting dog sitting TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with thick lead-glaze which has pooled here and there on the base, and has many minute black speckles, painted in yellowish-green, yellow, rose-pink, puce, orange-red, purple, and brown enamels. The underside is unglazed and rough, and has a large circular ventilation hole through which the interior fo the figure is visible. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified English Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain: The Golden Years, 1750-1770 English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Pick of the Week ---