IDENTIFIERS
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id:	41485
accession number:	C.1-1928

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze with polychrome enamels, and a little gold.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Ralph Griffin, MA, Trinity College, Cambridge


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

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Ralph Griffin

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41485

PEOPLE
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Priest

SUBJECTS
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cross
cross



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze with polychrome enamels, and a little gold
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1757 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1757
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.7



CITATIONS
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Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century
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