IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42211 accession number: C.84-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Fruit Vendor, press-moulded, covered with speckly lead-glaze, painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, dark pink, orange-red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside of the base is glazed except for most of the edge. The fruit vendor stands on a rounded diamond-shaped base with a convex top, rising up at the back to support her skirt. She stands on her right leg with her left foot forward, and leans back slightly from the waist, as she holds up her apron with both hands. Her right arm is bent at the elbow with the hand at waist level, and the left arm is stretched out. The apron is partly filled with fruit and foliage. Her hair is brown, and her features are boldly delineated in brown and red. She wears a pinner with lappets, and an orange-red ribbon and bow on top; brown earrings, and a black ribbon round her neck; a chemise under a dark pink low-necked bodice with gold edging and orange-red cuffs, each with a gold bow; a white apron over a pale yellow skirt, with a blue border round the hemline; and black shoes with gold bows. A blue flower is pinned to her left bodice front. The top of the base is faintly coloured with greyish-green and dribbles of thin yellow. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Fruit Vendor, press-moulded, covered with speckly lead-glaze, painted 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 Francis L. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42211 PEOPLE ------------------- female fruit vendor SUBJECTS ------------------- fruit foliage fruit foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, covered with speckly lead-glaze, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1753 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1753 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.7 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 31st March 1953 English and Continental Pottery, Porcelain and Enamels, 23rd June 1987 A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---