IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42177 accession number: C.82-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of The Muse Urania or Astronomy, press-moulded, glazed, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, pale lime green, pale yellow, dark pink, orange-red, pale brown, and mid-brown enamels, and gilt. The shallow, square base has an unglazed underside with a large oval ventilation hole in the middle. The Muse stands beside a pedestal draped with a cloth on which is a globe which she supports with her right hand. She leans towards the globe and with her left hand holds a pair of dividers over it. She wears a yellow veil, a white, long-sleeved robe with blue cuffs, and gold border round the hem, a gold belt, and a dark pink shawl with the ends crossed around her neck and the wider part draped behind her. The top of the base and the pedestal are pale lime green, and the draped cloth, pale brown. The dividers are gilt. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of The Muse Urania or Astronomy, press-moulded, glazed, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure 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/42177 PEOPLE ------------------- Urania SUBJECTS ------------------- Globe Globe TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, glazed, and painted overglaze in enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: The Muses Modeller DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.0 CITATIONS -------- Some Early Bow Muses English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Bow Porcelain Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre: vivitur ingenio The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures The Missing Muse ---