IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43413 accession number: C.3079-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 27 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip cast, and painted overglaze in turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, red, maroon, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt; the unglazed base has four patch marks and a large oval ventilation hole in the centre. There is a bolt and nut inside the base below the figure. The base is rectangular with cut corners and vertical sides moulded with Greek key pattern. On the viewer’s left there is a covered urn, supported by a four-sided pedestal with four paw feet. The woman stands on her right leg with her left leg crossed over it. She holds three flowers in her right hand, which is by her side. Her right elbow rests on the urn, and she leans her head on her left hand, pensively looking downwards. A tear is visible on her right cheek. She has light brown hair and eyebrows, grey eyes, pale pink cheeks and red lips. Over her head she wears a pale yellow cloak which falls down to the ground at the back and is draped up over her waistband at the front. She has a long pale turquoise dress with a floral pattern in darker turquoise, yellow, and purple. It is caught up on the left elbow with a pink bow, and has red borders round the neck and wrists. Her sandals are maroon. Three sides of the pedestal are decorated with garlands of turquoise laurel bound at the top in gold, enclosing black trophies on raised oval medallions. The top and lower edges are outlined in gold, and there are pairs of gold bands flanking guilloche borders on the sides of the urn object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, red, maroon, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Mr Williams, 125 Wardour Street, London, for £8 on 28 May (August ?) 1916 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/43413 PEOPLE ------------------- Andromache Hector SUBJECTS ------------------- urn mourning urn mourning TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted overglaze in turquoise, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, red, maroon, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1785 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1785 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. maker: Stephan, Pierre DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures The Old Derby China Factory Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain from Contemporary Sources Some Parallels and Proto-types in Ceramics Derby porcelain Figure of 'Andromache' (Derby Museum and Art Gallery) Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Pierre Stephan: the Career of a Derby Modeller Reviewed Derby Porcelain and the British Monumental Sculpture Tradition 1760-1775 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_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_3079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3079_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_3079_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3079_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_3079_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels