IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43459 accession number: C.89-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Britannia, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, red, purple, and dark grey enamels, and gilt. The underside has a glazed circular ventilation hole off centre, and has been ground flat; two patch marks are still visible. The base has two sides at the front and a curved back. The edges at the front are decorated with rococo scrolls. Britannia stands on her left leg with her right leg relaxed beside it. She looks forward, and has both arms down, her left almost resting on her oval shield, behind which is a white lion, which serves as a support. She is dressed all' antica in a plumed helmet, a gilt cuirass with yellow tabs over a robe with a purple floral pattern reserved in a red ground, and a turquoise drape caught up on the left shoulder with a gold brooch, and red sandals. Behind her on her right there is a globe picked out in gold, and a projecting pink drapery. On the top of the base there is a pale purplish brown canon and three canon balls, a turquoise trumpet and a white trumpet with pink mouths, a dagger with a gilt handle and a green laurel wreath. The scrolled edge is picked out in turquoise and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Britannia, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, red, purple, and dark grey 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 creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/43459 PEOPLE ------------------- Britannia SUBJECTS ------------------- shield canon trumpet dagger wreath lion laurel shield canon trumpet dagger wreath lion laurel TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, red, purple, and dark grey enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, second half culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.0 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 ---