IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42720 accession number: C.49A-1918 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 15 August 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china (?) figure of William Shakespeare, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in green, yellow, pink, flesh, red, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large central ventilation hole through which the partly glazed interior can be seen. The base is rectangular with cut corners, and fluted sides, which have a gold line round the top and bottom edges. The poet stands with his right leg crossed over his left, leaning on his right elbow on a pile of three books resting on top of a three-sided pedestal. With his left hand he points to an inscription on a scroll handing down from below the books. His hair and beard are brown, and he has ruddy cheeks, and red lips. He wears a close-fitting jacket, with gold decoration on the front, and gold buttons; breeches with gold buttons and a band at the knee; a long cloak with a pink lining and gold edges, and shoes with gold ties on top. The pedestal is decorated on the angles with heads of Henry V, Richard III, and Queen Elizabeth with volutes below. The books are red and gold, green and purple, and purple and yellow. The scroll is inscribed in gold in capital letters: THE CLOUD CAPPED TOW[ERS] . . . THE GORGEOUS PALACES THE SOLEMN TEMPLES THE GREAT GLOBE itself …. YEA, ALL WHICH [IT INHERIT] …… SHALL DISSOLVE [LIKE] THE [BASELESS] [FABRIC OF A] VISION [LEA]VE NOT A WRECK BEHIND object type: Bone china figure of William Shakespeare standing beside a pedestal painted in enamels and gilded title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before donor, Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA (St John's College, Cambridge) 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/42720 PEOPLE ------------------- Shakepeare, William Henry V Richard III Elizabeth I TECHNIQUES ---------- bone china, slip-cast and painted overglaze in green, yellow, pink, flesh, red, purple, and brown enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large central ventilation hole through which the partly glazed interior can be seen. slip-casting CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1828 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1828 culture: Bloor Period culture: 19th Century culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: Robert Bloor & Co. maker: Kent, William maker: Scheemakers, Peter maker: Cheere, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures The Old Derby China Factory Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain from Contemporary Sources Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century The Man at Hyde Park Corner, Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787 Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art The Contents of Fulbeck Hall, Lincolnshire Derby Porcelain Figures the first hundred years c. 1748-1848 ---