IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42723 accession number: C.49B-1918 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 15 August 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china (?) figure of John Milton, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, pink, flesh, red, purple, brown, enamels and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large central ventialation hole through the glazed interior can be seen. The rectangular base has cut corners and fluted sides, with gold lines on the upper and lower edges. Milton stands on the left, with his left leg forward, leaning on his left elbow on a pile of three books resting on a semi-circular pedestal decorated in relief with the Expulsion from Paradise. He holds his cloak around him with his right hand, and in his left holds a scroll. He has long wavy brown hair, brown eyebrows, ruddy cheeks and a red mouth. He wears a close-fitting jacket with gold decoration down the front, and gold buttons; breeches with gold buttons and a band at the knee, and shoes with gold bows. His long cloak has a pink lining and gold edges. The pedestal has three gold lines round the top and one round the bottom. The books are red and yellow, purple, and dark green and gold. The scroll is inscribed indistinctly in gold capital letters: object type: Bone china figure of John Milton 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/42723 PEOPLE ------------------- Milton, John SUBJECTS ------------------- Expulsion from Paradise Expulsion from Paradise TECHNIQUES ---------- bone china (?), slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, pink, flesh, red, purple, brown, enamels and gilt. The unglazed underside has a large central ventialation hole through the glazed interior can be seen. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1828 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1828 culture: 19th Century culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: Robert Bloor & Co. maker: Scheemakers, Peter maker: Cheere, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14 CITATIONS -------- 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 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art Derby Porcelain Figures the first hundred years c. 1748-1848 ---