IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140232 accession number: C.3170-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 14 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, painted overglaze in blue (minute amount), green, yellow, pink, red, pale purple, purple, pale and dark brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The flat closed underside is unglazed. The round low mound base is decorated with applied green leaves and eight flowers (yellow, blue, purple and white). At the back it rises up into a rock, and three olive tree stumps: one behind the rock (broken off), and one on either side of it, each having four short branches at the top bearing leaves and black olives (one on each broken off). Apollo sits on the rock with his left leg advanced, holding his lyre in his left hand and playing it with his right. He leans slightly to his left and looks towards his right. He has a laurel wreath over his pale brown hair and as delicately coloured features. His white cloak has a gold edge, and is caught up on the right shoulder with circular brooch with a red cabochon stone. His harp is coloured brown and gold, and a quiver full of arrows with purple flights hangs from a red strap on the tree stump on his right. The dragon, Python, pierced by an arrow, lies on the base on Apollo's right. It is painted in shades of pale yellow and purple with darker purple and black spots and red jaws and tongue. object type: hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, and gilded title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased frrom Mr Cubit (?)'s shop, near the station in Ipswich on 7 October 1922 for £6.6s.0d. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140232 PEOPLE ------------------- Apollo SUBJECTS ------------------- dragon tree dragon tree TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, assembled, glazed, painted overglaze in blue (minute amount), green, yellow, pink, red, pale purple, purple, pale and dark brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The flat closed underside is unglazed. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Friedrich August III CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: Kändler, Johann Joachim DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 14.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Zur “Taxa Kaendlers” Meissen Portrait Figures Fragile Diplomacy, Meissen Porcelain for European Courts ca. 1710-63 ---