IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42629 accession number: C.50 & A-1918 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 14 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in pale turquoise, green, yellow, pink, mauve, orange, red, pale reddish-brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed, and has three patch marks, and a circular ventilation hole to rear of centre. The roughly oval base has a tall, thick tree stump at the back, and rococo scrolls at the front, above which are three groups of applied flowers and leaves. Quinn stands facing the front, with his feet apart. His right hand holds an upright sword (missing), and an oval shield is strapped to his upper left arm, the clenched hand of which rests on his hip. He has a ruddy complexion, a grey beard and white hair, over which is a white broad-brimmed hat with a mauve underside, and white feathers. He wears a soft white ruff, a yellow sleeved doublet with gold borders, pockets, and red cuffs, a red and gold belt, a pink sleeveless coat with a gold edge, red breeches, and pale brown high boots. A bill projects from his right waistcoat pocket. The flowers on either side of his feet are mauve, and yellow, and those between his feet, are mauve, yellow, and red. The scrolls are picked out in gold. The sword blade has been replaced by a steel blade, now separate. object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in pale turquoise, green, yellow, pink, mauve, orange, red, pale reddish-brown, grey, and black 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/42629 PEOPLE ------------------- Quinn, James actor Falstaff TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in pale turquoise, green, yellow, pink, mauve, orange, red, pale reddish-brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. maker: McArdell, James maker: Hayman, Francis DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 37.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.8 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 A 1770-1790 Kiln Dump of the Derby China Works 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 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 Early English and Continental Ceramics and Glass European Ceramics at Burghley House The Richard Bebb Collection in the Garrick Club, A Catalogue of Figures, Sculpture and Paintings --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_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_50_1918_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels