IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 39296 accession number: C.7-1951 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain bust of George II, press-moulded, and coated inside and outside with very pale greyish-blue lead-glaze. The glaze has many brown speckles. The back of the bust below the shoulders is open, and the marks of paring away of the clay to make the wall thinner are visible. The narrow base has a large circular hole to facilitate its attachment to a socle. A small shallow fragment from another object has adhered to the underside of the right shoulder. The King faces front with his head turned three-quarters to his left. He has a long curling wig, and wears a shirt and neckcloth under armour, the breastplate of which is ornamented with scrolls and foliage. Over his left shoulder plate is the Star of the Order of the Garter, partly concealed by a cloak which is drawn in folds around his shoulders, and is held together above the Order by an oval cabochon brooch. The circular black marble socle is associated. object type: soft-paste porcelain bust of George II, bewigged, and wearing armour, the Garter Star, and a cloak draped about his shoulders and fastened with an oval cabochon brooch, supported on an associated black marble socle title: bust NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before Roger Francis Lambe (1872-1951), London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by R.F. Lambe STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/39296 PEOPLE ------------------- King George II TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain (probably steatitic), press-moulded, and coated inside and outside with very pale greyish-blue lead-glaze, which has bubbled, particularly on the shoulders, and, here and there, where these have burst, small craters. The glaze also has many brown speckles. The back of the bust below the shoulders is open, and the narrow base has a large circular hole to facilitate its attachment to a socle. A small shallow glazed fragment, presumably from another object or prop has adhered to the underside of the right shoulder. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory maker: Richard Chaffers & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 44.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures The Bust of George II The King, the Nun and other Figures Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England 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 English Enamels and British and Irish Ceramics Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . . A Porcelain Bust of George II Some Baroque sources of English ornamental porcelains The George II Busts and Historic Wall Brackets Alumni cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_6_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 808 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_7_1951_6_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 634 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_6_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 808 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_7_1951_6_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 317 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_1_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 775 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_7_1951_1_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 661 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_1_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 775 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_7_1951_1_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 331 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_2_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 749 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_7_1951_2_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 684 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_2_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 749 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_7_1951_2_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 342 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_3_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 689 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_7_1951_3_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 744 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_3_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 689 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_7_1951_3_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 372 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_4_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 668 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_7_1951_4_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 767 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_4_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 668 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_7_1951_4_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 384 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_5_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 839 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_7_1951_5_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 611 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_7_1951_5_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 839 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_7_1951_5_201306_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 305 pixels width: 250 pixels