IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79586 accession number: C.80-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and lead-glazed. The flat underside is unglazed. there is a small ventilation hole under the bird's tail. The roughly circular base has an irregularly shaped edge, and rises up in the middle into a large and a small tree stump, which support the bird. The partridge stands on both feet in profile to right with its head turned to its right. object type: Glazed soft-paste porcelain. title: animal figure 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/79586 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1752 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Raised anchor period (1749-1752) culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures A Natural History of Uncommon Birds: and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupeds, fishes, reptiles, insects, &c., exhibited in two hundred and ten copper-plates, from designs copied immediately from nature, and curiously coloured after life, with a full and accurate description of each figure, to which is added A brief and general idea of drawing and painting in water-colours; with instructions for etching on copper with aqua fortis; likewise some thoughts on the passage of birds; and additions to many subjects described in this work Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 ---