IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82556 accession number: EC.3-1944 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain covered with a transparent glaze. On the rocky base there reclines a sleeping, draped nude female figure, her right arm resting on flowers and her right leg crossed elegantly over her left. Behing her is a hollow tree stump beside which is the lower part of a draped male figure, the upper part of which has broken away. object type: Soft-paste porcelain group of a reclining female nude, sleeping beside a tree stump, and the lower part of a draped male figure. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sold by Sotheby's, London, 14 July, 1944, Catalogue of European Ceramics. Glass and Works of Art, Antique and Decorative Furniture, Oriental Rugs and Carpets, & c., p. 5, lot 28, purchased for £30 by Frank Partridge,124-6 New Bond Streett, London from whom purchased for £31.10s. by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. See invoice dated 14th July 1944 and receipted at 26 King street, St James’s Square, in the Friends’ records for 1944. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82556 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- tree stump flowers sleeping tree stump flowers sleeping TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded and hand-modelled, and covered with a transparent glaze. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- hand-modelling TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1749 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1749 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 20.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 21.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of European Ceramics Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thirty-sixth Annual Report, for the Year 1944 François Boucher Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres European Ceramic Art French Porcelain of the 18th Century Musée de Mariemont, Exposition de Porcelaines de Pâtes Tendre Figurines et Groupes en Porcelain des Manufactures Françaises du XVIIIe Siècle Nouvelles Acquisitions (1979-1989) The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures, French before 1815 La Porcelaine de Vincennes Musée de l’Ermitage, La porcelaine de Sèvres du XVIII siècle, Catalogue de la Collection French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection French Porcelain of the 18th Century at the V & A --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/EC_3_1944_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/mid_EC_3_1944_20_281_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/EC_3_1944_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa23/preview_EC_3_1944_20_281_29.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/359/large_EC_3_1944_1_200902_mf22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/359/mid_EC_3_1944_1_200902_mf22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/EC.3-1944_1_200902_mf22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/359/preview_EC_3_1944_1_200902_mf22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/437/359/EC_3_1944_1_200902_mf22_mas.ptif height: 3413 pixels width: 5120 pixels