IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 39315 accession number: C.189-1918 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Nun Reading, slip-cast, but heavy, and painted overglaze in a little blue, pale and dark green, bluish-green, yellow, flsh-pink, puce-pink, red, brown, and black enamels. The unglazed underside has a central circular ventilation hole. The oval mound base is is slightly pointed at the front. The nun is seated holding an open book in her hands. Her left leg is crossed over her right, and the foot (missing) projects over the edge. She wears a puce veil, a white habit decorated with sprays of roses and other flowers in 'Type A' style; a petticoat with a red frilled edge. Her book has a red binding and yellow-edged pages. The pages are inscribed in black. The page on her left is headed by a Crucifix, and the first line begins with a W in a rectangular frame; the rest of the inscription is incomprehensible. The front edge of the base is yellowish-green. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Nun Reading, slip-cast, but heavy, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ralph Griffin creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/39315 PEOPLE ------------------- nun SUBJECTS ------------------- reading reading TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, probably steatitic, slip-cast, but heavy, and painted overglaze in a little blue, pale and dark green, bluish-green, yellow, flsh-pink, puce-pink, red, brown, and black enamels. The unglazed underside has a central circular ventilation hole slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bolton, John maker: Richard Chaffers & Co. maker: Bolton, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 12 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures The King, the Nun and other Figures 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 Liverpool Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century A group of London porcelain in search of a home: the case for Kentish Town British and Continental Ceramics, including the Collection of the late Bella Kleinman --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_189_1918_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_189_1918_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_189_1918_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_189_1918_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_189_1918_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_189_1918_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_189_1918_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_189_1918_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_189_1918_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_189_1918_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_189_1918_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_189_1918_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_189_1918_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_189_1918_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_189_1918_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_189_1918_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels