IDENTIFIERS
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id:	80754
accession number:	C.169B-1918

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 25 March 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain Woman holding a Hamper, slip-cast with hand-modelled details, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, bluish-green, pale yellow, flesh, pink, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The slightly concave underside is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole in the viewer's back left corner under the figure. The rectangular low mound base has a wavy front edge, and is decorated on top with applied flowers and leaves. At the back on the left is a tree with two short branches near the bottom on the viewer's left, and one on each side of the top bearing bocage of leaves and clusters of small white flowers with blue centres. On the right of the base there is a low stump with applied leaves and flowers, on which rests a rectangular wickerwork hamper with its lid raised. The girl stands in front of the tree with her right foot forward. Her left hand rests on top of the hamper's lid, and in her right she holds a posy of flowers. She has brown hair and eyes, and wears a white cap, a turquoise jacket with white stomacher, and fichu, yellow skirt with a long red petticoat decorated with a puce and gold floral pattern, and a short white apron. Her yellow shoes have blue rosettes on top. On the base there are two orange and yellow flowers, a large orange flower with a puce centre, and three yellow daisies and leaves. The edge of the hamper has gold binding.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain Woman holding a Hamper, slip-cast with hand-modelled details, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, bluish-green, pale yellow, flesh, pink, brown, and black enamels, and gilt
title:	figure

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
collection:	Ralph Griffin
creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80754

PEOPLE
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woman

SUBJECTS
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hamper
basket
tree
flower
hamper
basket
tree
flower



TECHNIQUES
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Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast with hand-modelled details, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, bluish-green, pale yellow, flesh, pink, brown, and black enamels, and gilt
slip-casting
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1759 - 1769
creation date earliest:	1759
creation date latest:	1769
culture:	Gold anchor period (1759-69)
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II
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: 11.9



CITATIONS
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Chelsea Porcelain, The Gold Anchor Wares
British Ceramics
European Ceramics, Silver and Vertu, 17 March 2004
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