IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42495 accession number: C.27B-1992 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 Fisher Girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, red, mauve, brown, and black enamels. The underside is closed and unglazed, except for a curved depression near the back, and has a circular ventilation hole in the back proper left quarter. The low rounded sides rise up above that area into a rock which has a square aperture at the back to take an attachment. The girl stands with her left leg slightly advanced holding up her apron containing two fish with her left hand and raising her right hand over it. Her head is turned slightly to her left. She has brown hair drawn up into a bun, a yellow bodice with black buttons and pale mauve cuffs, a flowered white skirt, and black shoes. Behind her on her right there is an oval brown basket containing four fish. All the fish are blue and black with touches of red. On the top of the base in front of the girl there are two groups of pink, yellow, red and blue shells and green seaweed. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Fisher Girl, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1988 (Statham Loan 9B-1988). Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M.Government in 1990 in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42495 PEOPLE ------------------- fishergirl SUBJECTS ------------------- shells seaweed shells seaweed TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.3 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27B_1992_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_27B_1992_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27B_1992_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_27B_1992_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27B_1992_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_27B_1992_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27B_1992_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_27B_1992_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27B_1992_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_27B_1992_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_27B_1992_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_27B_1992_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels