IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41594 accession number: C.3050A-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 on the visible surfaces with glassy and speckly lead-glaze, painted in red, pale brown, dark purplish-brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside of the circular low mound base is unglazed and has a central ventilation hole. The monk stands with his feet together, the right foot slightly advanced. He turns his head to his right, and holds up his right arm; his left is beside him with the hand pointing outwards. He has brown hair with a tonsure, a pale brown habit with a black belt, and a dark brown cape and cowl, and black shoes with gold buckles. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Standing Monk or Friar, decorated in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Geneen or Geneer, Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, from whom purchased on 18 April 1921 for £11.10 with its pair 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: Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41594 PEOPLE ------------------- monk friar SUBJECTS ------------------- standing standing TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and covered on the visible surfaces with glassy and speckly lead-glaze, painted in red, pale brown, dark purplish-brown, and black enamels, and gilt 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: 16.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures The Henry C. and Martha L. Isaacson Collection, English, French and Italian Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3050A_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_3050A_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_3050A_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_3050A_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_3050A_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_3050A_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_3050A_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_3050A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels