Pheasant
Factory:
Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory
Potter:
Littler, William
Glassy soft-paste porcelain pheasant of 'Snowman' type, slip-cast (?), with applied moulded details, covered with thick, bubbly, clear lead-glaze, which has black speckles here and there, and is heavily speckled and 'dry' round the edge of the base. The underside is unglazed and has a large and deep oval ventilation area near the front. The shallow base has a wavy outline with a small rock or tree stump at the back and a large rock at the front. The pheasant faces to the viewer's left. It stands on its left leg with its right on the rock, and its long tail over but not touching the small rock or tree stump. A vine bearing applied leaves and bunches of grapes climbs up the front of the rock and terminates by the pheasant's right shoulder. The top of the branch is open to take an attachment. On the base there are two applied daisies with three leaves each below the bird's tail, and one daisy with two leaves on the rock in front of its left foot.
History note: Purchased at Frome, Somerset with C.3085-1928 for £2.10s.0d. by A.G.W. Murray, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, who sold them for the same figure to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, also of Trinity College, to which the latter added a Staffordshire figure of Cleopatra.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16 cm
Length: 21.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
Circa
1752
CE
The pheasant belongs to the group of early Longton Hall figures described as 'snowmen' because of their thick, bubbly glaze which obscures the details of the modelling.
Details
presumed lead; except for underside of base
Lead-glaze
Glassy soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Glassy soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with applied moulded details, covered with thick, bubbly, clear lead-glaze, which has black speckles here and there, and is heavily speckled and 'dry' round the edge of the base
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.3086-1928
Primary reference Number: 38096
Old object number: 4219, vol. 24
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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