IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41570 accession number: C.3031-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 20 August 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Girl playing a Hurdy-gurdy title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: A vendor in Soham; sold to Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, from whom purchased on 15 April 1919 for £8 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41570 PEOPLE ------------------- girl SUBJECTS ------------------- hurdy-gurdy music hurdy-gurdy music TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Figürliches Porzellan Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 British and Continental Ceramics and Glass, 7 October 1996 Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures ---