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François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire (1694-1778)
Factory: Member of the Wood family
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels\par
White earthenware with slightly blue tinted glaze, painted in turquoise, flesh-pink, pink, red, dark maroon, and black enamels. The bust is supported on a rectangular socle with a dark maroon line running round its upper and lower edges. The sitter faces front with his head turned a quarter to his right. He wears a long curling wig, a turquoise blue coat over a red waistcoat and a pale lilac, ermine-lined cloak over his left shoulder, draping across his body at front and back; the socle has a red-brown line round its upper and lower edges \par
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by L.C.G. Clarke, MA
Height: 16.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1947-11) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1785
CE
-
1790
CE
Voltaire was a French writer, historian and philosopher, who was a leading figure in the intellectual movement known as The Enlightenment. This model does not conform to well-known busts of Voltaire by sculptors such as Lemoyne, Houdon and Rosset. It was probably derived from a bust modelled by Paul-Louis Cyfflé (1724-1806) and made in terre de Lorraine by the Luneville factory in France (an example is in the V. & A., London, inv. no. C.685-1909). It was probably produced by a member of the Wood family, possibly Enoch Wood.
Decoration composed of enamel ( turquoise, flesh-pink, pink, dark maroon, and black)
slightly blue tinted
Lead-glaze
white
Earthenware
Moulding
: White earthenware, moulded, lead-glazed very slightly blue, and painted in turquoise, flesh-pink, pink, dark maroon and black enamels
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.14-1947
Primary reference Number: 71963
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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