IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42626 accession number: C.46-1918 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 27 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted overglaze in dark blue, green, bluish-green, yellow, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat, mainly unglazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole. The roughly circular base has a small tree stump at the back, and at the front, a semi-circular panel flanked by scrolls. Africa stands on his right leg with his left bent and resting on a small lion standing behind him. His head is turned to his right, and he holds a fruit in his right hand, and supports the lower end of a cornucopia of fruit in his left hand. His skin is black, and he wears a black elephant's head headdress, and a dark blue drapery with a floral pattern, a yellow lining, and gold edge. The scrolls are picked out in gold, and the panel is decorated with a gold cornucopia. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Africa accompanied by a lion, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ralph Griffin creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42626 PEOPLE ------------------- boy Africa SUBJECTS ------------------- Africa Africa TECHNIQUES ---------- bone china, painted overglaze in dark blue, green, bluish-green, yellow, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1811 - 1828 creation date earliest: 1811 creation date latest: 1828 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: Robert Bloor DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.4 CITATIONS -------- The Old Derby China Factory Derby Porcelain Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain's Four Quarters of the Globe Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_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_46_1918_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_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_46_1918_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_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_46_1918_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_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_46_1918_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_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_46_1918_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_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_46_1918_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_46_1918_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_46_1918_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_46_1918_285_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_46_1918_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_46_1918_285_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels