IDENTIFIERS
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id:	47455
accession number:	C.21-1932

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 27 July 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Aesop, slip-cast (?), with semi-opaque lead glaze (presumably containing some tin-oxide), painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, dark pink, flesh, orange, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat, unglazed underside has a circular ventilation hole at the back. The base is approximately rectangular with a broad tree-stump and rock rising up at the back. Aesop, shown as a black man with jet black hair and skin, a hump back and pot-belly. He stands on his right foot with his left knee bent, and the foot behind him, resting his posterior on the top of the tree stump. His head is turned slightly to his left, his right arm is raised, and his left arm is bent at the elbow so that the hand at chest level. He wears a pink jacket with a white collar and yellow lining, sixteen gold buttons, and a gold belt. His matching breeches have blue bows at the knees and he has yellow shoes with orange heels and brown soles. Across his body he wears a gold chain with a watch or medallion suspended over his right side. The tree stump is decorated with a few streaks of yellow and green. The top of the base is strewn with applied flowers and leaves: on the viewer's right, a pink flower with three leaves, three orange flowers with five leaves, and on the viewer's left,  two blue flowers with five leaves, and another pink flower with three leaves.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before donor; Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47455

PEOPLE
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Aesop




TECHNIQUES
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Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast (?), with semi-opaque lead glaze (presumably containing some tin-oxide), painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, dark pink, flesh, orange, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat, unglazed underside has a circular ventilation hole at the back
slip-casting

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	Red anchor period (1752-1756)
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 13.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 24.7



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
CITATIONS
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A Chelsea Figure of Aesop
Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795
Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain from Contemporary Sources
Chelsea Porcelain, the Red Anchor Wares
18th-Century English Porcelain
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