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Fable Candlestick: the Vain Jackdaw
Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain Fable Candlestick, slip-cast and hand modelled, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, red, reddish-brown, and grey enamels, and gilt
Soft-paste porcelain Fable Candlestick, slip-cast and hand modelled, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, red, reddish-brown, and grey enamels, and gilt. The underside is glazed and has a large ventilation whole near the back. The shaped base has scrolls round the front edge, and is supported on two scroll feet at the sides and one at centre back. At the back there is a small loop handle attached to the tree trunk, on each side of which at the front there is bocage with clusters of small white May flowers, and a few larger red and puce flowers. In front of the tee stands a peacock facing to the viewer's left, with another in front of it on the ground to the left, looking towards and pecking at the jackdaw in peacock's plumage which is also on the ground. There are a few applied flowers and leaves on top of the base. the scrolls on the edge are picked out in gold.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 18 cm
Width: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Gold anchor period (1759-69)
18th Century, second half#
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1770
CE
The source of the design was the engraving illustrating Fable 47, The Jay and the Peacock on p. 95 of Francis Barlow's Aesop's Fables, London, 1665.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, puce, red, reddish-brown, and grey)
gold
Details
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast and hand modelled, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, red, reddish-brown, and grey enamels, and gilt
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.84-1932
Primary reference Number: 76211
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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