IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82114 accession number: C.3200-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 13 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded and very heavy, with applied decoration. Clear glaze with a greenish tinge, unevenly applied, and with many black speckles on the base. The lion sits on its hind legs with its forepaws resting on a tree stump which is overlaid with applied stems of flowers and foliage. Its head faces the viewer, ears back and tongue protruding. The base is rectangular with cut corners. object type: Soft-paste porcelain Chinese lion sitting on its hind legs, glazed with a greenish tinge. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Hercules Read; sold Sotheby's, 6 November 1928 (second day), Catalogue of the Varied and Extensive Collection of Works of Art, the Property of Sir Hercules Read, p. 18, lot 191; purchased for £22.10s. by Hant (or Hunt) on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher. 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/82114 SUBJECTS ------------------- Chinese Lion Chinese Lion TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded and very heavy, with applied decoration. Clear glaze with a greenish tinge, unevenly applied, and with many black speckles on the base press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, first half# CREATORS -------- maker: Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 20.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Varied and Extensive Collection of Works of Art, The Property of Sir Hercules Read, 6, Palace Gardens Terrace, W.8 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Catalogue de la Collection Gasnault avec une introduction des notes historiques et technologiques et plus de 270 marques reproduits en fac-simile Pagodes et dragons. 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