IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41574 accession number: C.3032-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Figure. Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered on the visible surfaces with clear lead glaze with black speckles, mainly on the lower part. The circular low mound base is unglazed underneath and has a circular ventilation hole. There is a square aperture in the back of the base to take an attachment. The nun stands on her right foot with her left foot slightly advanced. She has her right hand on her breast, and with her left supports an open book She wears a veil over a wimple, and a long gown. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Mr Malcolm Stoner, London, on 24 November 1926 for £8 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher. 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: Bequathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41574 PEOPLE ------------------- nun SUBJECTS ------------------- reading reading TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered on the visible surfaces with clear lead glaze with black speckles, mainly on the lower part press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Catalogo degli ordini religiosi della Chiesa Militante Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991 The Henry C. and Martha L. Isaacson Collection, English, French and Italian Porcelain ---