IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140315 accession number: C.5-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh, pale mauve, red, pale brown, and a little black (for pupil of eyes) enamel, and gilded; the underside is open and glazed. The bust is supported on a circular waisted socle with a stepped edge, decorated on the front with a cartouche enclosing an impressed Rautenshield. The woman has long pale brown hair swept up into a knot at the back of her head, falling down onto her shoulders at the back, and dressed with flowers at the front. Her head is tilted and turned towards her left, her neck is long and slender, and she is nude apart from a yellow and pale mauve drape over her right shoulder which is held in place by a pale mauve ribbon which encircles her torso below the breasts and is tied with a bow under her truncated left arm. At the front, the drape forms a curved projection filled with flowers. There are gold lines round the edge of the drape, the edges of the cartouche, and the upper and lower edges of the socle. object type: hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt title: bust NOTES ----- type: history note value: London, Sotheby's, 28 February 1950, Catalogue of English and Continental Ceramics, the Property of a Gentleman deceased. Sold by order of the Executors, p. 17, lot 120. 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/140315 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- spring rose tulip spring rose tulip TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory maker: Bustelli, Franz Anton DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Forty-second Annual Report, for the Year 1950 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Geschichte der Bayerischen Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg Catalogue of the Collection of European Porcelain at the Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm 18th-Century German Porcelain Nymphenburger Porzellan : Sammlung Bäuml ---