IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47925 accession number: C.90B-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherdess with Sheep, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, mauve, orange-red, pale brown, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed, and has a circular ventilation hole under the figure. The approximately D-shaped mound base is moulded across the front with a C scroll, and rocaille 'frilling'. At the back it has a tree stump with a Y-shaped branch on the viewer's right, and a shorter branch on the left. The shepherdess stands facing the front with her left foot slightly advanced, and her head turned to her left. She supports an houlette in her left hand, and with her right, holds up her apron behind her. She has long pale brown hair, and wears a broad-brimmed yellow hat with a pink underside, and a mauve ribbon round the crown. She has a white chemise with full sleeves, a yellow bodice fastened with mauve bows over a turquoise stomacher, a yellow skirt, a white apron, a turquoise cloak with a pale orange lining held on by an orange ribbon across her chest, and pink shoes with red bows. On the viewer's right a sheep lies on the mound looking up at her. Its back is dappled with red wavy lines and its hooves are grey. The flowers on the base are red, mauve, and yellow, and the leaves are green. The base is picked out in pink, a little turquoise, and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherdess with Sheep, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, mauve, orange-red, pale brown, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Francis L. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47925 PEOPLE ------------------- shepherdess SUBJECTS ------------------- sheep sheep TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, mauve, orange-red, pale brown, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: Gold anchor period (1759-69) culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 CITATIONS -------- Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . . British and Continental Ceramics, 6th March 1995 British Ceramics including Chelsea Porcelain from a distinguished Australian Collection ---