IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140249 accession number: C.3-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 11 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-past porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in pale blue two shades of green, yellow, orange, pink, grey and black enamels, and gilt. The glazed underside is divided into two by a transverse wall, and there is a large ventilation hole at the back. The approximately round base has a wavy, rocky edge, painted in shades of grey-green and pale green. The top is painted pale green with grey striations to resemble grass. The girl stands on her left leg with her right advanced, she holds her right hand to her breast, and her left advanced a little in front of her. The mask and fan she held are missing. She has delicately tinted pink cheeks, and dark brown eyes. Her pale grey hair is dressed in a high chignon and ornamented with two orange and two blue feathers, and a veil which is attached to her bodice at the front. She wears a white, gold-edged bodice over a pink and gold striped tunic and baggy pink trousers, a long pale yellow cloak attached to her left shoulder and right hip by blue bows, and blue shoes with yellow bows. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Stanley Woolston, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140249 PEOPLE ------------------- sultana TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-past porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in pale blue two shades of green, yellow, orange, pink, grey and black enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Höchst Porcelain Manufactory maker: Melchior, Johann Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.6 dimension: Height units: in value: 7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.1 dimension: Width units: in value: 4 CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam, Thirty-ninth Annual Report, for the Year 1947 German Porcelain of the 18th Century Fine Continental Porcelain Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Kirschgarten aus der Pauls-Eisenbeiss-Stiftung Basel Figürliches Porzellan Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796 British and Continental Ceramics Johann Peter Melchior 1747-1825, Bildhauer und Modellmeister im Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg Turkish Delights: Meissen Figures for the Marchand-mercier Gille Bazin in 1756 Fine European Ceramics and Glass The Distinguished Collection of a Lady ---