Fable Candlestick: the Fox and the Stork
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Fable Candlestick, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Fable Candlestick, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, two shades of green, yellow, pink, purplish-pink, red, pale purple, yellow, brown, grey, and black enamels. The square base has scrolled and pierced edges, and is supported on three scroll feet at the back, and two at the front. Its underside is glazed except for the feet. On the top there is a tree with six branches bearing applied leaves and flowers of the various colours, and has at the top a drip pan formed by six leaves, and candle-socket in the form of a flower with a calyx. The underside of the drip pan is green overall, and the rim of the nozzle has a circle of dark blue spots and a dark blue edge. At the back a branch curves down to the base to form a handle and has a horizontal purple pansy at the top to serve as a thumbpiece. In front of the tree on the viewer's right stands a stork with grey plumage and a yellow beak and legs, looking down at a reddish-brown fox, who stands over a spray of flowers on the left, and is about to eat from a plate which is dotted with pink and yellow to represent food. The scrolls round the edge are picked out in purplish-pink.
History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1970 (Statham Loan13-1970). Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M.Government in 1990 in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (1990) by H.M. Government
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1765
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, two shades of green, yellow, pink, purplish-pink, red, pale purple, yellow, brown, grey, and black)
lead-glaze
( presumed lead)
Details
presumed phosphatic and containing bone ash Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.20-1992
Primary reference Number: 42387
Old loan number: Statham Loan 13-1970
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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