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Standing Priest
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze with polychrome enamels, and a little gold.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze with a spot of blue, and yellow, yellowish-green, dark pink, purple, brownish-red, and black enamels, and a little gold. The unglazed underside of the base is flat and has a large ventilation hole with glazed sides at the back. The figure stands on a roughly circular low mound with an indentation at the front with rocaille edging, decorated on top at the front with three applied flowers, each with three leaves. The priest stands with his left foot slightly advanced, holding an open book in his left hand and holding up his right arm which is bent at the elbow. He has black hair, and wears a purple and white birth, a long purple gown with a white surplice, and purple cape with a hood and gold buttons. A black cross on a string of beads hangs down at the front. He has black shoes with white buckles. The book is inscribed 'Vanitas' in red across both pages with below, three illegible lines in black on each page. The rocaille decoration ion the base is picked out in dark pink. Two flowers are yellow, and one is pink.
History note: Unknown before Ralph Griffin, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge
Height: 14.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1928) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Mid#
Circa
1757
-
1760
The figure might have been derived from an illustration of St John Nepomuk.
Decoration composed of gold ( a little) enamels ( with a spot of blue, and yellow, yellowish-green, dark pink, purple, brownish-red, and black enamels)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze with polychrome enamels, and a little gold
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.1-1928
Primary reference Number: 41485
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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