IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41591 accession number: C.3040-1928 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 with slightly speckly lead-glaze on the visible surfaces. The closed underside is unglazed and has an oval ventilation hole at the back. The low base is almost round, with a small projecting rock on the right, and a square aperture at the back to take an attachment. On the front there are two applied flowers, each with two leaves, and a very small flower on the rock. Columbine stands on her left leg with her right leg raised in front. She turns her head over her left shoulder and holds out both arms towards her right. She carried a slapstick under her left arm, now missing except for a portion attached to her waist. She wears a broad-brimmed had, turned up at the front, a ruffle round her neck, a long-sleeved bodice with a basque, and a full skirt. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Columbine Dancing. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frederick S. Weinberg; Seafield Lodge, Broughty Ferry; Sotheby's, 9 November 1922, lot 75; bought for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher by Mr Hyman for £1.10.0. 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/41591 PEOPLE ------------------- Columbine TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered with slightly speckly lead-glaze on the visible surfaces 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: 13.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 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 Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 British and Continental Ceramics Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture 18th-Century English Porcelain Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures German Porcelain of the 18th Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3040_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3040_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3040_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3040_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3040_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3040_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3040_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3040_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3040_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_3040_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3040_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_3040_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels