IDENTIFIERS
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id:	41575
accession number:	C.3033-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and clear-glazed on the visible surfaces. The closed base is unglazed and has a central ventilation hole. The nun is seated on a low mound with a square hole in the back to take an attachment. She looks down towards a large book which she holds in both hands. Her left foot projects over the edge of the base at the front. She wears a long, voluminous veil, and a long dress.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Nun or Abbess Reading.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: J. Hutchinson, Esq., FRCS, 1 Park Crescent, W1; sold Sotheby's, 24 November 1921, lot 81; sold for £3 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher


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:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Bequeathed by J.W.L. Glaisher

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41575

PEOPLE
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nun
abbess

SUBJECTS
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reading
reading



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and clear-glazed on the visible surfaces
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:	1752 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1752
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid#
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 11.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.3



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991
English and Continental Ceramics
A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774
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