IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43507 accession number: C.97-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a sportswoman holding a partridge, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted onglaze in a little blue, turquoise, green, yelllow, flesh pink, purple, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large round central ventilation hole, and three patch marks. The mound base has at the back a tree trunk with a branch and leaves on the viewer's left, and a root at bottom right. There are three groups of applied leaves on the front of the base. The sportswoman stands on her left leg with her right slightly advanced. She holds a partridge (?) on her left hand, and with her right supports a gun which rests on its butt beside her. She has brown hair and eyes, pink cheeks, and red lips. She wears a round hat with a red brim and two white feathers at the front; a pink jacket with yellow collar, cuffs, and lining, gold buttons, and edges, and a matching skirt hitched up to show a petticoat scattered with red and blue flowers and purple leaves, and edged with gold. Her black shoes each have a red flower on top. A turquoise bag is suspended behind her back by a black strap over her left shoulder. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a sportswoman holding a partridge, standing in front of a tree stump, painted in enamels and gilded title: figure LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/43507 PEOPLE ------------------- sportswoman SUBJECTS ------------------- partridge partridge TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain,slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted onglaze in a little blue, turquoise, green, yelllow, flesh pink, purple, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large round central ventilation hole, and three patch marks slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, second half culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.7 CITATIONS -------- The Old Derby China Factory Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 ---