IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82763 accession number: C.113-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 15 August 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china figure of Geroge IV, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in pale blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has a large circular ventilation hole in the middle. The rectangular, straight-sided base has a pedestal on the viewer's right. The front is inscribed in relief and gilt with scrolls above and below 'GIV R', and a bejewelled crown rests on the top. The portly King stands beside it with his right leg advanced slightly, his right hand on his hip, and his right at his side, holding a sceptre. He has pale brown curly hair, sideburns, eyebrows and eyes, ruddy cheeks, and red lips. He wears a long puce and pink dappled coronation cloak with simulated brownish-pink fur, and gold borders, tied on at the front with a pink bow. He has a high white collar, a shirt with ruffles at the cuffs, a dark brown jacket with gilded cuffs, and an ermine and a gold border, pale yellow breeches with the order of the Garter on the left knee, white breeches and black shoes. Round his neck is a gilded chain with a circular medallion of St George with gold tassels hanging on cords below it. object type: Bone china figure of Geroge IV in Coronation robes, standing beside a pedestal with a crown on top of it. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Mrs W.D. Dickson creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82763 PEOPLE ------------------- George IV (1820-30) SUBJECTS ------------------- crown crown TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain (or bone china), slip-cast, glazed, and painted onglaze in pale blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has a large circular ventilation hole in the middle. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1821 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1821 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: Robert Bloor & Co. maker: Keys, Edward DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Metropole London, Macht und Glanz einer Welstadt 1800-1840 CITATIONS -------- Metropole London, Macht und Glanz einer Welstadt 1800-1840 English Enamels and British and Irish Ceramics Derby Porcelain 1748-1848, An Illustrated Guide Derby Porcelain Figures the first hundred years c. 1748-1848 ---