IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80203 accession number: C.3060-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 16 August 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Glassy soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded (?), and lead-glazed. The glaze has small black speckles here and here, particularly round the lower edges of the sphinx. The open underside has a bevelled edge, and is unglazed. The sphinx is recumbent on a low rectangular base. She faces forward with her head tilted slightly to her right. Her hair is tied back into a knot and then falls down in two strands, over her right shoulder in front and over the left at the back. She wears a small cap on the left side of her head, a drape around her shoulders, and a shaped cloth over her back with two tassels on each side. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick and Simpson, London, 15 June, 1923, lot 156. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80203 PEOPLE ------------------- Peg Woffington (1718-60) SUBJECTS ------------------- Gecian sphinx Gecian sphinx TECHNIQUES ---------- glassy soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded (?), and lead-glazed moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1749 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1749 creation date latest: 1752 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Raised anchor period (1749-1752) CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11 dimension: Length units: cm value: 14.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Flowers and Fables, A Survey of Chelsea Porcelain 1745-69 Chelsea Porcelain Ceramics from the Rous Lench Collection including British Pottery and Porcelain, Dutch Delft . . . Chelsea China from Private Collections Fine British and Continental Ceramics ---