IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42161 accession number: C.81-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 24 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure group of The Fortune Teller, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in very pale greyish-blue, turquoise-green, green, pale yellow, orange, dark pink, puce, and black enamels, and gilt. The figures stand side by side on a low rocky base which rises up in the centre of the back to support them. The bearded fortune teller stands on the left with feet apart, bending over the right hand of the young woman, which he holds by the wrist in his left hand. The girl stands on the right with her left arm by her side, holding a now missing object. Between them is a rectangular object, perhaps a book. The fortune teller wears a wreath of leaves and berries on his head, a dark pink coat with yellow lining, turquoise breeches, and black boots with a gold border at the top. She has three flowers on top of her head, and wears a petticoat decorated with turquoise flowers and puce and gold leaves, a yellow open robe with an orange stomacher and cuffs, and a trailing garland of flowers and leaves passing over her right shoulder and diagonally across her back to her waist. The visible shoe is orange. There are two areas of green on the back of the base. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure group of The Fortune Teller, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth 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/42161 PEOPLE ------------------- fortune teller girl SUBJECTS ------------------- wreath fox hunting wreath fox hunting TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: 'The Muses Modeller' maker: Aveline, Pierre Alexandre maker: Boucher, François DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 14.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Bow Porcelain Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 18th-Century English Porcelain Some Consequences of the Bow Porcelain Special Exhibition, Part I: The Alderman Arnold Period (Nov 1748-March 1750) Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman Ceramics. 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces English Pottery and Porcelain and 19th Century Ceramics, 13th June 1983 The Rous Lench Collection, Volume One, English Pottery and Porcelain British Ceramics, 18th May 1992 English and Continental Ceramics and Glass, 15th November 1994 Made at New Canton, Bow Porcelain from the Collection of the London Borough of Newham Fine British Ceramics ---