IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80510 accession number: C.81-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted over glaze in greyish-blue, green, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, purple, brown, and black enamels. The circular underside is unglazed and has a small circular ventilation hole in the centre. The tree trunk rises from a low circular mound. Some roots are visible at the front, and there are four groups of raised leaves at intervals on the sides. The bird perches on the top on both feet. Its plumage is painted in greyish-blue, yellow, pink, red, brown, and purple, and its eyes in black The base is white with four green and yellow splashes. The base and tree trunk are lightly painted in pale brown on one side, the roots are pink, and the groups of raised leaves are yellow and green with dark brown veins. object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown 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/80510 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird lesser goat-sucker bird lesser goat-sucker TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast (presumed) and painted overglaze in greyish-blue, green, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, purple, brown, and black enamels slip-casting CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1752 culture: Raised anchor period (1749-1752) culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 15 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Old English Porcelain Old English Porcelain: a Handbook for Collectors Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures A Natural History of Uncommon Birds: and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupeds, fishes, reptiles, insects, &c., exhibited in two hundred and ten copper-plates, from designs copied immediately from nature, and curiously coloured after life, with a full and accurate description of each figure, to which is added A brief and general idea of drawing and painting in water-colours; with instructions for etching on copper with aqua fortis; likewise some thoughts on the passage of birds; and additions to many subjects described in this work The Chelsea Birds Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 Nature, Porcelain and Enlightenment: George Edwards and the Chelsea Porcelain Birds ---