IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82746 accession number: C.39B-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a seated leopard, slip-cast, clear glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, red, purple, and black enamels.The underside has patches of glaze, and a very shallow central depression. The leopard sits on top of the oval base which has a narrow treestump at the back, and is decorated with three groups of applied flowers and leaves. Its body is in profile to the viewer’s left, and its head and neck are turned to the right. Its front left paw is raised, and its tail curved over its back. The leopard’s back, and the exterior of its limbs are yellowish-buff with dark purple curved and circular markings. Its head is also yellowish-buff with tiny purple dotted markings, and purple nose. Its eyebrows are black and the interior of its mouth and nostrils, red. the flowers are red and yellow with green and turquoise leaves. object type: Soft-paste porcelain leopard seated with one front paw raised and its tail curved over its back, painted in enamels title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs H. Statham (died respectively 1967, and 1970); their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1988; bequeathed by Miss Beryl Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82746 PEOPLE ------------------- Statham, Hugh, Dr Statham, Margaret SUBJECTS ------------------- leopard leopard TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, yellowish-buff, red, purple, and black enamels. The underside has a very shall central depression and three patch marks. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1758 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1758 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.6 dimension: Length units: cm value: 8.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Ceramic Circle 1927-1948 English Pottery and Porcelain CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years 1750-1770 Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 ---