IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82747 accession number: C.39A-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a seated leopardess, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, red, purple, and black enamels. The unglazed underside has a small circular depression in the centre, and three faint patch marks. The oval base is decorated with five groups of applied flowers and leaves. The leopardess sits in profile to the viewer's right with her head turned to viewer's left, its right front paw raised, its right hind leg extended behind it, and its tail curved over its back. The back, tail and outer sides of its legs are yellow with black curved and circular markings; its head is yellow dotted with tiny purple markings, and it has black eyebrows, nose, and pink lined mouth. The paws are purple. The flowers on the base are yellow and red with green and turquoise leaves. A pair with a leopard C.39B-1992 object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a seated leopardess with right front paw raised, and tail over its back, standing on an oval base decorated with flowers and leaves, painted in enamels title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham (died respectively 1967 ande 1970); their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously, 1988; 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 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/82747 PEOPLE ------------------- Statham, Hugh, Dr Statham, Margaret SUBJECTS ------------------- leopardess leopardess TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, red, purple, and black enamels. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1758 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1758 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.1 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Ceramic Circle 1927-1948 English Pottery and Porcelain CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years 1750-1770 Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 ---