IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140263 accession number: C.3215-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 20 March 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed. The figure stands on a low circular base with a tree stump at the back. The underside is convex and has a deeper depression under the stump. The boy has curly hair, partly covered by a broad-brimmed hat turned up at the front and decorated by two feathers. He wears a shirt, a jacket, breeches, stockings and buckled shoes. He stands on his left leg with his right relaxed at the knee, and extended behind him. He turns his head to his left as he blows a bagpipe which he holds in both hands. He has his left foot on the lead of a monkey who is seated beside him on the viewer's right. The monkey wears a hat and jacket with a frill round the neck, and holds a stick behind his back with both paws. On the ground in front of him there is an apple. object type: Glazed hard-paste porcelain title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick & Simpson, London, 8 October 1920, part of lot 126; purchased for £2.12.6 with the two other figures in the lot 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/140263 PEOPLE ------------------- youth SUBJECTS ------------------- bagpipe monkey apple bagpipe monkey apple TECHNIQUES ---------- Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, and glazed press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Antonibon-Parolin period CREATORS -------- maker: Le Nove Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge L'arte della porcellane in Italia: Il Veneto e la Toscano La ceramica nel Veneto: La Terraferma dal XIII al XVIII secolo ---