Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Actress in Turkish Costume
Maker(s)
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Modeller:
'The Muses Modeller'
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain figure of an Actress in Turkish Costume.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered with lead-glaze, appearing yellowish-white. The base has a roughly circular ventilation hole which extends into the figure. The shallow, square base is deeper at the front than at the back. The actress stands with her right hand resting on her chest, and her left arm bent at the elbow and extended towards the front. She wears a headdress which curves upwards at the back and has a veil hanging down to waist level. She wears a chemise under a fitted bodice, a skirt with three tiers, trousers, slippers, and a long, fur-lined coat which is open at the front, and has furred edgings to the pocket slits at the back.
Notes
History note: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 2 March 1917 for £12 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Measurements and weight
Height: 19.5 cm
Place(s) associated
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Stratford-le-Bow
⪼ Essex
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1750
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1754
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Base
Depth 7.8 cm
Width 7.7 cm
Materials used in production
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered with lead-glaze, appearing yellowish-white
Glazing (coating)
References and bibliographic entries
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
page(s): p. 384
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Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
page(s): pp. 62, 88
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Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum
page(s): p. 9
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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
page(s): p. 14
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The Important Collection of Fine English Porcelain, The Property of the Late Sir Bernard Eckstein Barrett, 29th March 1949
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18th-Century English Porcelain
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English Porcelain and 19th Century European Ceramics, 13th February 1984
page(s): p. 43
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Early English and Continental Ceramics and Glass
page(s): pp. 136-7
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Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels
page(s): p. 57
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Made at New Canton, Bow Porcelain from the Collection of the London Borough of Newham
page(s): 87
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.3027-1928
Primary reference Number: 41540
Old object number: 4489
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 20 November 2015
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
