IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76211
accession number:	C.84-1932

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: 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
title:	candlestick

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76211


SUBJECTS
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peacock
jackdaw
The Vain Jackdaw
peacock
jackdaw
The Vain Jackdaw



TECHNIQUES
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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
slip-casting
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1765 - 1770
creation date earliest:	1765
creation date latest:	1770
culture:	Gold anchor period (1759-69)
culture:	18th Century, second half#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 18

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15



CITATIONS
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Aesop's Fables
Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P.,  and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
18th-Century English Porcelain
Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848
Property from the Estate of Laurance S. Rockefeller
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