IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	38118
accession number:	C.148-1932

DATE AUDIT
----------
created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a reclining man, slip-cast, painted underglaze in 'Littler's blue', and onglaze with green, yellow, pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels. The uneven underside is glazed beneath the edge, and unglazed in the middle where there is a circular ventilation hole, and two firing cracks. The man reclines against a rock on shaped, rococo scroll-edged base with an applied rose and three leaves between his feet. He holds a basket in his left hand, his right hand raised. He has brown hair, eyebrows, and eyes, ruddy cheeks, and red lips.  He wears a shirt with ruffles at the cuffs, a blue jacket lined with white, a pink waistcoat decorated with puce embroidery, yellow breeches, and black shoes. The scroll-edged base is picked out in red and puce, the back of the rock is washed in green.
object type: soft-paste porcelain figure of a Reclining Man, painted underglaze in 'Littler's blue', and onglaze with polychrome enamels.
title:	figure

NOTES
-----
type: history note
value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth.


LICENSING
---------
text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
---------
instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
----------
url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38118

PEOPLE
-------------------
man

SUBJECTS
-------------------
basket
rock
basket
rock



TECHNIQUES
----------
soft-paste porcelain, moulded, painted underglaze in Littler's blue, and onglaze with red, pink, yellow, green, brown, and black enamels
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
----------
glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
------
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
------
creation date:	1756 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1756
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid#
culture:	George II

CREATORS
--------
maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory
maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory
maker: Littler, William

DIMENSIONS
----------
dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.0

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 11.5



CITATIONS
--------
Vauxhall porcelain figures
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P.,  and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
Longton Hall Porcelain
---
IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_148_1932_281_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_148_1932_281_29.jpg
height: 649 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_148_1932_281_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_148_1932_281_29.jpg
height: 325 pixels
width: 250 pixels


surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_148_1932_282_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_148_1932_282_29.jpg
height: 649 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_148_1932_282_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_148_1932_282_29.jpg
height: 325 pixels
width: 250 pixels