IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41559 accession number: C.3028-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, thickly press-moulded, and glazed on the exterior, and on most of the interior of the large ventilation hole under the right putto. The rest of the underside is flat and unglazed. The group is supported on an oval low mound base decorated with applied flowers and leaves. The putti are naked but each has a long drape passing over one shoulder. One putto sits on the right with his left leg raised in the air and his right leg bent with the foot on the ground. His arms are raised towards the other putto and he looks towards the viewer. The other putto strides over the other's raised leg with his left leg, and bends back slightly as he grasps the struggling dolphin in his arms. The dolphin is scaly and has in its gaping mouth a square aperture to take a candle branch. object type: Soft-paste porcelain group of Two Putti playing with a Dolphin. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry J. Fielding; Puttick & Simpson, 27 January 1922, Pottery and Porcelain the property of the late Henry Johnes Fielding Esq. (grandson of Henry Fielding, 17 Hereford Square, SW), lot 102. Purchased by the auction porter for Dr Glaisher for £1.11.6. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41559 PEOPLE ------------------- putti SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin dolphin TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, thickly press-moulded, and glazed on the exterior, and on most of the interior of the large ventilation hole under the right putto press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 16.0 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 French Influences at Chelsea Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres Catalogue of the Important Collection of English and Continental Porcelain Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman British and Irish Ceramics, 27th May 1986 British and Continental Ceramics including a Collection of German Fayence, 9th October 1995 Made at New Canton, Bow Porcelain from the Collection of the London Borough of Newham ---