IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41632 accession number: C.3055-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 24 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in pale blue, dark puce, two shades of purplish-grey, and brown enamels. The underside is concave and glazed. The pear-shaped base has a scrolled edge and a small, stepped mound at the front. The cat sits at the narrow end of the base, looking straight ahead, and holding a mouse to itself with its right front leg. Its left paw rests on the mound, into which another mouse is disappearing, its back and tail still visible. The cat is painted to resemble a tabby in shades of purplish-grey. On one side there is a fingerprint. The mice are brown, and the mound is pale blue. The scrolls are picked out in dark puce. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a cat, painted in enamels. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Christie's, 15 June, 1922, part of lot 32, two cats; purchased for £77 on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge 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/41632 SUBJECTS ------------------- cat mouse cat mouse TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in pale blue, dark puce, two shades of purplish-grey, and brown enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1753 - 1758 creation date earliest: 1753 creation date latest: 1758 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 English Porcelain Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991 Bow Porcelain Splendour in the Grass, Birds, Beasts and Flowers in European Ceramics Wedgwood & Beyond. English Ceramics from the Starr Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_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_3055_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels