IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41984 accession number: EC.3-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Kitty Clive as 'The Fine Lady' in Lethe, press-moulded and lead-glazed, including the inside walls of the pedestal. The figure is supported on a high square pedestal with cut corners and incurved sides, decorated on the front with a musical trophy in relief, and on the sides with frilling. 'The Fine Lady' stands facing the front, with her head back. She wears a pinner, a ruffle round her neck, a pet-en-lair jacket with a sack back, ruffled sleeves, and small bobbles on the cuffs and front edges, and a wide hooped skirt. She rests her left arm over the skirt and holds a lapdog under her right arm. The date '1750' is incised on the inside of one side of the pedestal. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Kitty Clive as 'The Fine Lady' in Lethe, press-moulded, and lead-glazed. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Mansell, Bournemouth; Mrs W.D. Dickson LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41984 PEOPLE ------------------- Clive, Kitty SUBJECTS ------------------- dog actress dog actress TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and lead-glazed press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Mosely, Charles maker: Worlidge, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Bow Porcelain 1744-1776, A Special Exhibition of documentary material to commemorate the bi-centenary of the retirement of Thomas Frye title: The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain 1744-1776, A Special Exhibition of Documentary Material to Commemorate the Bi-centenary of the Retirement of Thomas Frye Bow Porcelain: a narrative Some Consequences of the Bow Porcelain Special Exhibition, Part I: The Alderman Arnold Period (Nov 1748-March 1750) Antiques, 1960 The Art of Ceramics, European Ceramic Design 1500-1830 Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre: vivitur ingenio Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum Fine English Pottery and Porcelain, 14th February 1961 English Enamels and British and Irish Ceramics A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 Klaber & Klaber, Rare Antique Porcelain & Enamels, Summer Catalogue 2003 Marketing Celebrity: Porcelain and Theatrical Display --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_3_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 519 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_EC_3_1938.jpg height: 732 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_3_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 519 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_EC_3_1938.jpg height: 366 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/645/large_EC_3_1938_dc1.jpg height: 1335 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/645/mid_EC_3_1938_dc1.jpg height: 652 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/EC.3-1938_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/645/preview_EC_3_1938_dc1.jpg height: 326 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/645/EC_3_1938_dc1.ptif height: 6879 pixels width: 5278 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/681/676/large_EC_3_1938_mas.jpg height: 1335 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/681/676/mid_EC_3_1938_mas.jpg height: 652 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/681/676/EC_3_1938_mas.jpg height: 6879 pixels width: 5278 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/681/676/preview_EC_3_1938_mas.jpg height: 326 pixels width: 250 pixels