IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71963 accession number: C.14-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 10 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware with slightly blue tinted glaze, painted in turquoise, flesh-pink, pink, red, dark maroon, and black enamels. The bust is supported on a rectangular socle with a dark maroon line running round its upper and lower edges. The sitter faces front with his head turned a quarter to his right. He wears a long curling wig, a turquoise blue coat over a red waistcoat and a pale lilac, ermine-lined cloak over his left shoulder, draping across his body at front and back; the socle has a red-brown line round its upper and lower edges \par object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels\par title: bust 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 L.C.G. Clarke, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71963 PEOPLE ------------------- Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet Voltaire TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, moulded, lead-glazed very slightly blue, and painted in turquoise, flesh-pink, pink, dark maroon and black enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Member of the Wood family DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Voltaire and Rousseau The Wood Family of Burslem Figurines et Groupes en Porcelain des Manufactures Françaises du XVIIIe Siècle The French Bronze 1500 to 1800 British Ceramics of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, 22nd May 1989 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_14_1947_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_14_1947_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_14_1947_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_14_1947_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_14_1947_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_14_1947_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_14_1947_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_14_1947_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels