IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 93986 accession number: EC.4-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Glazed hard-paste porcelain.. The bust is attached to a circular socle. The sitter faces front, his head turned a quarter to his left. His hair falls down his back in curls with one tress over his right shoulder. He wears a laurel wreath, a neo-Roman scaled breastplate with a mask on the front, and a drape over his left shoulder which passes across his body and under the right arm. object type: glazed hard-paste porcelain bust of Francis III of Lorraine wearing a laurel wreath, a neo-Roman breastplate, and a drape title: bust NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.E. Backer, 1 Elm Tree Road, St John's Wood, London NW8 from whom purchased for £18 by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 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/93986 PEOPLE ------------------- Francis III of Lorraine (1708-65) TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and glazed; the mould lines on the socle are visible on right and left moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Imperial Porcelain Factory maker: Niedermayer, Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Thirty-Eighth Annual Report for the Year 1946 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Influence in Porcelain ---