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Sportswoman
Production: Zurich Porcelain Manufactory
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, yellow pale and dark puce pink, pale orange, a little red, brown, grey, and black enamels. The underside is partially glazed, and has a circular ventilation hole to left of centre, and a y-shaped firing crack in the middle and a shorter firing crack on the viewer's right edge. The figure is supported on a triangular base with a wavy edge which rises up on the left side into a heap of rocks mottled in green, yellow, brown and black. The top of the base is mottled in green and yellow and at the front has two pale orange flowers surrounded by applied leaves. The woman is seated on the mound leaning on her left elbow, and is looking down to watch her small dog which is disappearing down a hole under the mound. Her right arm is extended downwards and the hand holds the tip of a sporting gun with a green carrying strap. She has pale grey hair dressed in a knot at the back and tied with a pale orange ribbon, and a pale pink complexion, red lips and black eyes. Her white hat has a green turned up brim and is decorated with applied green leaves and two yellow berries. She wears a white coat with green collar, belt, cuffs, and edgings, a pale puce skirt with a pattern of dark puce scattered sprigs, and black boots.
History note: Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £23 on 4 June 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( green, yellow, pale and dark puce pink, pale orange, a little red, brown, grey, and black)
Whole Over Hat
Height 15.1 cm
Hat To Base Edge
Width 12.1 cm
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in green, yellow pale and dark puce pink, pale orange, a little red, brown, grey, and black enamels
Glazing
Accession number: C.3226-1928
Primary reference Number: 74537
Old object number: 5040
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sportswoman" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74537 Accessed: 2024-11-24 08:15:09
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