IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82759 accession number: C.1-1935 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Europa, slip-cast, with applied details, lead-glazed, and painted in pale turquoise, pale green, olive-green, yellow, flesh, pink, dark pink, orange-red, red, purple, pale pinkish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The unglazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole, and three lpatch marks, one very large. The asymmetrically shaped base has a scrolled and waved edge, and rises up in the middle into a substantial rock on which the figures are supported. The white Bull is in profile to the right, with its right leg bent, its tail curved up over its back, and its head turned to its right to look back towards Europa. Its hooves, and the tips of its horns are gilded, and it has a garland of pink, and pale orange-red flowers and foliage round the top of its head and neck. It has a red mouth, pale flesh-brown muzzle, pinkish-brown brows, and black pupils. Europa is seated sideways on the Bull’s back, looking towards it, and placing her left hand on its head, and her right hand below its neck. Her right leg is bent and behind her left, which is extended downwards. She has pale pinkish-brown hair drawn back into a twisted chignon and ornamented with a pink and gold frontlet. Her lips are red, her cheeks, pale flesh, her eyebrows, pale pinkish-brown, and the pupils of her eyes, black.She wears a pale yellow, floral-patterned tunic lined with pink, and edged with gold, and having round the high waist, a pink and gold belt. The tunic reveals her left shoulder and breast. From her left shoulder a pale turquoise drape billows out behind her, and then crosses in front of her over her knees. On her feet and shins, she has red sandal straps. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of Europa seated on a white Bull, supproted on a rock on a scrolled base, painted in enamels ,and gilded title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs F. Leverton Harris STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82759 PEOPLE ------------------- Europa Zeus SUBJECTS ------------------- abduction bull (animal) flowers sitting Rape of Europa abduction bull (animal) flowers sitting Rape of Europa TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with applied details, lead-glazed, and painted in pale turquoise, pale green, olive-green, yellow, flesh, pink, dark pink, orange-red, red, purple, pale pinkish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The unglazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole, and three lpatch marks, one very large. slip-casting CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.5 CITATIONS -------- Die Verführung der Europa English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Derby Porcelain Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years 1750-1770 Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 ---