IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43443 accession number: C.3081-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in green, pale yellow, pale flesh pink, two shades of pink, pale purple, red, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has four patch marks, and a large circular ventilation hole. The base is square with cut corners, moulded edges and fluted sides, and apart from a gilt band round the upper edge, is undecorated. On the left at the back there is the lower part of a fluted column, coloured pink. Apollo stands beside it on his right leg, with his left leg relaxed at the knee and the foot extended behind him. His head is turned to his left, and he holds a lyre in his left hand and is about to pluck it with his right. He has a green laurel wreath over his wavy dark grey hair, and wears a long pale yellow tunic semé with red dots and decorated with a purple floral design. The cowl neck is red, and the edges are gold. He has a long pink cloak, and reddish-brown sandals. The lyre is reddish-brown and gold. object type: Figure of Apollo playing a lyre, soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gitl. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from P.A. Yarwood, 11 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth for £7.10s. on 22 June,1915 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/43443 PEOPLE ------------------- Apollo SUBJECTS ------------------- lyre wreath laurel lyre wreath laurel TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in green, pale yellow, pale flesh pink, two shades of pink, pale purple, red, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilt slip-casting CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Old Derby China Factory Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_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_3081_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels