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Description: | Artist: Bow Porcelain Manufactory, factory; Date(s): circa 1754 - 1756; Classification(s): porcelain, animal figure, press-moulding, soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with applied moulded details and lead-glaze; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928 [C.3064A-1928]
Description: Figure. Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with applied moulded details and lead-glaze. The underside is unglazed and has a central circular ventilation hole which has been filled with a brown substance. The wavy-edged oval base has a central tree trunk with a short curved branch at the front, and two branches at the top, on each of which there is a bird. At the back of the trunk there is a square hole to take an attachment, and between the branches there is a smaller circular hole. A fruiting vine creeps up the tree trunk and there are applied flowers and leaves at the top. A hound sits to the left of the tree. On the base there are two separate applied flowers and leaves oat the back, a small spray on the right of the front, a long trailing spray across the front, and a flower and leaves by the hound's feet. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | porcelain Bow Porcelain Manufactory animal figure | Temporal: | name=mid-18th Century; start=1754; end=1756 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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