IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140245 accession number: C.3187A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, red, mauve, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The slightly concave underside is glazed, and has two firing cracks and three ventilation holes: one large oval under the front left corner; one large circular almost in the middle; and one small circular near the back right corner. Most of the shallow, almost square, base is covered by a green rug with a frilled edge; the front right corner is mottled in grey. The woman sits on a chair with cabriole legs and high shield-shaped back upholstered in green. The back is pale pink with a green grid pattern. To the woman's left there is an oval marble-topped table supported by three inverted cornucopia bound with gold ribbon, and filled with polychrome fruit. A dark grey and white spaniel lies on the base to her right, and there is a pile of books on the front left corner of the base. The woman looks to her left, resting her right foot on the pile of books, and holding up a scroll in her right hand, while turning over the pages of a music book on the table with her left hand. She has a ruddy complexion, red lips, and dark grey long hair hanging down her back. She wears a white chemise which has fallen off her left shoulder to reveal her breast; a long pink skirt scattered with red floral sprays, and having a blue border round the hem; and white shoes with gold bows on top. object type: hard-paste porcelain, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Stoner & Evans (Mr Stoner), 3 King Street, St James's Square, London from whom purchased on 20 November 1916 for £38 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140245 SUBJECTS ------------------- singing singing TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, red, mauve, brown, grey, and a little black enamel, and gilt. The slightly concave underside is glazed, and has two firing cracks and three ventilation holes: one large oval under the front left corner; one large circular almost in the middle; and one small circular one near the back right corner. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Factory maker: Beyer, Johann Christian Wilhelm DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ludwigsburger Porzellanfiguren Ludwigsburger Porzellan, Fayence, Steingut, Kacheln, Fliesen, Ein Handbuch ---