IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41595 accession number: C.3050B-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, with slightly blue-tinged glaze, painted in pale purple, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The almost round low mound base is unglazed underneath and has a ventilation hole in the middle below the figure. 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 which is inscribed across two pages 'Omnia Vin(cit)' with illegible text below. She wears a white habit with a pale purple veil, cuffs, and shoes, a dark purple bow at the neck, and a dark purple belt. Her shoe buckles are gold. The book is brown with rectangular gold borders and gold-edged leaves. object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in 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: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41595 PEOPLE ------------------- nun SUBJECTS ------------------- standing reading standing reading TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with slightly blue-tinged glaze, painted in pale purple, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.5 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 Catalogo degli ordini religiosi della Chiesa Militante 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---