IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76211 accession number: C.84-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain Fable Candlestick, slip-cast and hand modelled, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, red, reddish-brown, and grey enamels, and gilt. The underside is glazed and has a large ventilation whole near the back. The shaped base has scrolls round the front edge, and is supported on two scroll feet at the sides and one at centre back. At the back there is a small loop handle attached to the tree trunk, on each side of which at the front there is bocage with clusters of small white May flowers, and a few larger red and puce flowers. In front of the tee stands a peacock facing to the viewer's left, with another in front of it on the ground to the left, looking towards and pecking at the jackdaw in peacock's plumage which is also on the ground. There are a few applied flowers and leaves on top of the base. the scrolls on the edge are picked out in gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain Fable Candlestick, slip-cast and hand modelled, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, red, reddish-brown, and grey enamels, and gilt title: candlestick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth 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/76211 SUBJECTS ------------------- peacock jackdaw The Vain Jackdaw peacock jackdaw The Vain Jackdaw TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast and hand modelled, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, puce, red, reddish-brown, and grey enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: Gold anchor period (1759-69) culture: 18th Century, second half# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15 CITATIONS -------- Aesop's Fables Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain 18th-Century English Porcelain Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Property from the Estate of Laurance S. 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