IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42115 accession number: EC.15B-1938 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 hand-modelled details, covered, except for a roughly circular area underneath, with pale turquoise-tinted lead-glazed, and painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, dark pink, red, and brown enamels, and gilt. The circular base has incurved sides pierced by six kidney-shaped holes at the front, and a scrolled edge which extends into four low supports. On the top there is a low tree trunk which supports the figure and has a small triangular hole at the bottom to take an attachment. On the viewer's right there is a tall, curving tree bearing applied flowers and leaves, supporting a drip pan and candle nozzle held to it by a pin and nut. The girl stands with her feet apart, holding up her flower-filled apron with her right hand, and supports the top of the tree with her left hand. She wears a broad-brimmed pink hat with a turquoise underside and gold edge, and a red and turquoise striped ribbon round the crown; a white blouse or chemise, a pink bodice with the front open to show a red herring-bone pattern on the stomacher; a red overskirt bunched up at the back, a petticoat which is turquoise and pink striped at the back and has a formal floral design in red, turquoise, pink, and gold on the front; a white apron, and red shoes with a turquoise and gold pom pom on each. There are groups of three applied blue and yellow flowers and four pink and yellow flowers and leaves at her feet. The flowers on the tree are of various colours. The drip pan and candle nozzle are picked out in underglaze blue and gold, and the base in pink, turquoise and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a girl standing beside a candlestick in the form of a tree with a nozzle and drip-pan at the top, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: candlestick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before testator, Cecil E. Byas (c. 1866-1937) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42115 PEOPLE ------------------- girl SUBJECTS ------------------- spring candlestick spring candlestick TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, covered, except for a roughly circular area underneath, with pale turquoise-tinted lead-glazed, and painted underglaze in blue, and overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulded TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, second half# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) CITATIONS -------- Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 ---