IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41569 accession number: C.3030-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered overall with slightly speckly clear glaze, except for a small area on the cushion near the pug's back left paw. The pug reclines on a rectangular cushion with an incised border on the sides, and a large tassel on each front corner. The pug's body is in profile to left, with its head is turned round to its left, and its tail is curled up over its back. It wears a collar with an applied flower at the back of its neck. object type: Soft-paste porcelain of a Pug Dog on a Cushion. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sheldon Collection; purchased by Cyril Andrade, at the Sheldon Sale on 12 June 1919 for £15; sold by Andrade at Puttick & Simpson, 10 October 1919, lot 149; purchased by Frank Stoner on Dr Glaisher's behalf for £4.10. 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/41569 SUBJECTS ------------------- cushion dog pug cushion dog pug TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered overall with slightly speckly clear glaze 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: 7.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 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 The Rous Lench Collection, Volume One, English Pottery and Porcelain English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection The Collection of Alice and Murray Braunfeld ---