IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42280 accession number: C.24-1973 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash (presumed), figure of a Female Sphinx, press-moulded, and lead-glazed. The sphinx is supported on a high, sloping, rococo scrollwork base. It is in profile to left with the head turned to the viewer. It has the body of a lion, and its tail passes under the left hindquarter and arches over the right side of its back. It has the head of a vivacious woman, wearing a cap with frilled lappets, earrings, and a necklace; a bare bosom, and lion's paws projecting from laced cuffs with bobble edging, below which are suspended two large tassels. On its back is has a saddle decorated with small incised strokes, and with two small tassels (one missing) hanging from the rear side. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Hugh Statham died. 1967; Mrs Margaret Statham died 1970. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the L.D. Cunliffe Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42280 PEOPLE ------------------- Peg Woffington (1718-60) SUBJECTS ------------------- female sphinx female sphinx 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 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 12.0 CITATIONS -------- Schreiber Collection: Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels &c.: collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P. and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the South Kensington Museum in 1884 Some Consequences of the Bow Porcelain Special Exhibition, Part I: The Alderman Arnold Period (Nov 1748-March 1750) English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Les Frères Coustou Important French Furniture and Clocks, 15th June 1990 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 Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain 18th-Century English Porcelain Apollo, November 1952 Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England Porcelain, Guides to European Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . . A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---