IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71284 accession number: C.108-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Biscuit porcelain figure of John Milton, slip cast. The underside has a large circular ventilation hole. The rectangular base has cut corners, and straight, fluted sides. Milton stands with his left leg forward, leaning on his left elbow on a pile of books on top of a semi-circular pedestal with the Expulsion from Paradise in relief on the curved side. His left hand is missing. He has long curling hair, and wears a shirt with a collar, a jacket, knee breeches, a cloak, and shoes with bows on top. He holds his long cloak across his body with his right hand. object type: Biscuit figure of Jhon Milton standing beside a pedestal decorated in relief with the Expulsion from Paradise title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth 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/71284 PEOPLE ------------------- Milton, John TECHNIQUES ---------- biscuit porcelain, slip cast. The underside has a large circular ventilation hole 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 culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain from Contemporary Sources The Man at Hyde Park Corner, Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787 Ceramics of Derbyshire 1750-1975 English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 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_108_1932_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_108_1932_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_108_1932_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_108_1932_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_108_1932_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_108_1932_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_108_1932_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_108_1932_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels