Girl playing a Hurdy-gurdy
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Girl playing a Hurdy-gurdy
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded and covered on the visible surfaces with clear lead-glaze, which is speckly on the lower part. The approximately oval base is unglazed underneath and has an oval ventilation hole under figure. The girl sits on a rock pierced at the back by a circular hole to take an attachment. She has her right foot over the edge of the base, and holds in both hands a hurdy-gurdy which rests on her left knee. She wears a round flat-brimmed hat, a ruffle round her neck, a jacket with a basque, a skirt, and an apron which is pushed over to her right side. Her shoes have pompoms on top.
History note: A vendor in Soham; sold to Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, from whom purchased on 15 April 1919 for £8 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1752
CE
-
1755
CE
phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded and covered on the visible surfaces with clear lead-glaze, which is speckly on the lower part
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3031-1928
Primary reference Number: 41570
Old object number: 3872
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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