1592970448000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-82759 1755194543965 1714467870000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-82759 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82759 0c8660fd-3cf0-30ad-b913-6d15e4813767 5 person reference agent-150808 adlib-agent-150808 b743ca12-1428-34cc-974d-0fb83d67d739 Europa person reference agent-148952 adlib-agent-148952 47961f94-6de5-32eb-bfb3-958f8ee27fb5 Zeus reference term-37642 adlib-term-37642 8f36efe3-4fe1-3da2-9944-000db5687ad7 porcelain reference term-37637 adlib-term-37637 89b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecb soft-paste porcelain pale turquoise, pale green, olive-green, yellow, flesh, pink, dark pink, orange-red, red, purple, pale pinkish-brown, and black reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold Decoration in pale turquoise, pale green, olive-green, yellow, flesh, pink, dark pink, orange-red, red, purple, pale pinkish-brown, and black enamels reference term-120086 adlib-term-120086 cdecca31-5ec3-3fe3-9e5d-455d9771fda5 painting overglaze reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding Details garland reference term-115812 adlib-term-115812 5ff69ea6-7a8e-307d-89e3-0a960ba42e8a applying Exterior reference term-120062 adlib-term-120062 d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206 lead-glazing reference term-107486 adlib-term-107486 234fe16e-17e4-3db8-881a-443636aac5ca classical mythology Applied Arts Soft-paste porcelain figure of Europa seated on a white Bull, supproted on a rock on a scrolled base, painted in enamels ,and gilded Soft-paste porcelain figure of Europa, slip-cast, with applied details, lead-glazed, and painted in pale turquoise, pale green, olive-green, yellow, flesh, pink, dark pink, orange-red, red, purple, pale pinkish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The unglazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole, and three lpatch marks, one very large. The asymmetrically shaped base has a scrolled and waved edge, and rises up in the middle into a substantial rock on which the figures are supported. The white Bull is in profile to the right, with its right leg bent, its tail curved up over its back, and its head turned to its right to look back towards Europa. Its hooves, and the tips of its horns are gilded, and it has a garland of pink, and pale orange-red flowers and foliage round the top of its head and neck. It has a red mouth, pale flesh-brown muzzle, pinkish-brown brows, and black pupils. Europa is seated sideways on the Bull’s back, looking towards it, and placing her left hand on its head, and her right hand below its neck. Her right leg is bent and behind her left, which is extended downwards. She has pale pinkish-brown hair drawn back into a twisted chignon and ornamented with a pink and gold frontlet. Her lips are red, her cheeks, pale flesh, her eyebrows, pale pinkish-brown, and the pupils of her eyes, black.She wears a pale yellow, floral-patterned tunic lined with pink, and edged with gold, and having round the high waist, a pink and gold belt. The tunic reveals her left shoulder and breast. From her left shoulder a pale turquoise drape billows out behind her, and then crosses in front of her over her knees. On her feet and shins, she has red sandal straps. C.1-1935 1 accession number C.1-1935 82759 priref 82759 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82759 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82759 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Mrs F. Leverton Harris reference agent-151791 adlib-agent-151791 3f3a85c3-d843-3c5d-87e6-44208583b872 Harris, Frederick Leverton, Mrs 1935 1935 1935 given The donor was the widow of the Right Hon. Frederick Leverton Harris (d. 1926) 1760 1760 1760 circa 1760 1765 1 1765 1765 1765 factory reference agent-35888 adlib-agent-35888 0244b335-51c5-3535-a626-9ed7f3d33894 Derby Porcelain Factory proprietor reference agent-157812 adlib-agent-157812 d6c503ac-f737-3861-9907-14fd8b4759bf William Duesbury & Co. Europa, the daughter of Agenor, King of Tyre, was abducted by Zeus in the form of a friendly white bull. The story was told by Ovid in Metamorphoses, Book 2, 836-75. The subject in art was explored in an exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin in1989. See Documentation This model is E52 in Bradshaw's list of patch-marked models, 1759-69., reference term-106400 adlib-term-106400 3e80c102-1483-3c39-b2f4-67e333d653d8 18th Century reference term-107437 adlib-term-107437 96f4b0d1-fc11-39ff-ae91-1b23d888d479 George III reference term-110521 adlib-term-110521 b57fb046-bca3-3371-a721-2093adc3a282 literal England England country literal Derbyshire Derbyshire region Derby presumed lead reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze reference term-37637 adlib-term-37637 89b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecb soft-paste porcelain Height cm 28.5 Width cm 17.5 reference term-107454 adlib-term-107454 6ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20 figure history note Unknown before donor reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-1239 adlib-publication-1239 6cc0028a-d527-3a64-93e5-f6e4245e69b7 Die Verführung der Europa reference publication-2714 adlib-publication-2714 17f1e6d7-5774-3881-a2ae-c2350391ddbb English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century reference publication-2665 adlib-publication-2665 b65e1b40-2322-326a-bb1b-3b3607de9cf9 Derby Porcelain Cf. The example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see p. 125, pl. 78. Where the size is given as 289 mm (11 3/8 in high). Dated c. 1760-5. 125 reference publication-3667 adlib-publication-3667 13bec947-8c84-361b-8481-7f6f99b8dfcd Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years 1750-1770 Ref. For this model, see p. 110, E52. Cf. An example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, p. 111, pl. 93, h. 27.9 cm. 11 in. 110-11 reference publication-2845 adlib-publication-2845 aed83438-5cba-3d3d-914c-0603afed5d46 Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 reference term-9010 adlib-term-9010 ecd03def-5d2a-3b43-bb92-76be16fbabf6 Rococo concept reference term-113177 adlib-term-113177 24fc842f-34ea-380b-804b-e31f38258447 abduction animal reference term-105242 adlib-term-105242 e261ff51-0cb4-3a3e-b179-ac1531405c2e bull (animal) plant reference term-107622 adlib-term-107622 523e46be-6c51-3455-8391-3ea334aab2f0 flowers activity reference term-107877 adlib-term-107877 d3fd41d2-8962-3d09-a893-f20ebb772237 sitting named event reference term-114580 adlib-term-114580 1f8c13e0-ddfe-3465-b782-363f7e6a8983 Rape of Europa literal abduction abduction literal bull (animal) bull (animal) literal flowers flowers literal sitting sitting literal Rape of Europa Rape of Europa

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figure Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with applied details, lead-glazed, and painted in pale turquoise, pale green, olive-green, yellow, flesh, pink, dark pink, orange-red, red, purple, pale pinkish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The unglazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole, and three lpatch marks, one very large. reference term-120096 adlib-term-120096 7cc05306-f07e-3189-849f-52addb9e2ca7 slip-casting object OBJECT