IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80511 accession number: EC.8-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, probably press-moulded, and covered with cloudy lead-glaze. The Duke faces front. He has plump cheeks and a slight double chin. His hair is dressed with upstanding curls at the front and side, and is tied back into a queue with a large bow in the nape of his neck. He wears a breastplate decorated with a panel of scale pattern with a Medusa head at the top. The lower edge is curved at the front and almost straight at the back. object type: Soft-paste porcelain head of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, probably press-moulded, and covered with cloudy lead-glaze. title: 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/80511 PEOPLE ------------------- William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65) SUBJECTS ------------------- Medusa head Medusa head TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, probably press-moulded, and covered with cloudy lead-glaze press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1749 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1749 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: 12.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Payments by Sir Everard Fawkener to Nicholas Sprimont Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum 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 English Porcelain 1745-95, Its Makers, Design, Marketing and Consumption Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Chelsea Porcelain, English Ceramics and Enamels, the Property of Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner Lord Fisher's Collection of English Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg Flowers and Fables, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69 Chelsea Porcelain The Henry C. and Martha L. Isaacson Collection, English, French and Italian Porcelain English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery ---