IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82726 accession number: C.34-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of ewe and lamb, slip-cast, and lead-glazed, with slightly dry-edge. The unglazed underside is extremely thick (2.4 cm), and has a large oval ventilation hole in the middle.The rocky base is roughly rectangular with a curved edge at the back. The recumbent ewe is in profile to left with its head turned to the front. The lamb lies in front of her, facing to the viewer's right, and resting its head on its mother's rear left leg. Both have a long, curly fleece. object type: Glazed soft-paste porcelain ewe and lamb, with dry edge. title: animal figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham (d. respectively 1967 and 1970); Miss Beryl Statham, by whom lent anonymously in 1970; bequeathed by Miss Beryl Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Statham Collection creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82726 PEOPLE ------------------- Statham, Hugh, Dr Statham, Margaret SUBJECTS ------------------- Ewe lamb Ewe lamb TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and lead-glazed, with slightly dry-edge. The unglazed underside is extremely thick (2.4 cm), and has a large oval ventilation hole in the middle slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: Andrew Planché DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 16 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years 1750-1770 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Pottery and Porcelain ---