IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41700 accession number: C.3057-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Figure. Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, dark puce, and brown enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed and has a large circular ventilation hole in the centre. The rounded rectangular base has five scroll feet and a pierced rocaille motif between the front two. It rises up at the back into a rock with a square aperture to take an attachment at the bottom. On the viewer's left there is a lateral branch bearing applied flowers and leaves, and on the right, a much shorter branch. The shepherdess stands on her right leg with her left stepping forward onto a rock. She turns to her left, holding up her flower-filled apron in her left hand, and in her right holds a posy of flowers to her bosom. She has long brown hair with a turquoise, purple, and yellow striped cloth over it, and round her neck has a gold necklace. She wears a dark puce bodice with an orange and gold triangle-patterned stomacher, orange and turquoise striped cuffs, and white ruffles; an orange and turquoise striped skirt, and a yellow petticoat with orange flowers and gold foliage in reserves with turquoise outlines. Her shoes are dark puce with a turquoise flower on top of each. A small piebald skin bag is slung on her right hip by means of a cross strap. On the ground on the viewer's left there is a recumbent pale orange and white lamb. The flowers on the base and elsewhere are of various colours. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 5 March 1919 with C.3058-1928 for £95 by 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/41700 PEOPLE ------------------- shepherdess TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, dark puce, and brown enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.0 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Katalog der ausgwahlten und erstklassigen Sammlung Alt-Meissner Porzellan aller Stilrichtungen des XVIII Jahrhunderts nebst einem Anhang Porzellan anderer Manufakturen des herren Rentners C.H. Fisher in Dresden Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Philip's Sale Catalogue, 11th June 1986 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_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_3057_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels