IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41596 accession number: C.3052-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in a little blue, green, yellow, dark orange, pink, dark pink, red, pale greyish-purple, pale brown, and dark brown enamels. The flat, unglazed base has a circular ventilation hole. The shepherd stands on a low oval mound with a waist-high tree stump on his right. He stands on his right leg with his left extended to the side so that its toe is over the edge of the base. His head is turned to his right. He has the bag of the bagpipes under his left arm and holds the chaunter in both hands. He wears a pale brown, broad-brimmed hat with a dark orange band and a rosette on the turned up side of the brim; a white shirt, and a flowered jacket with a pink lining; pale yellow breeches with dark orange edging and bows at the knees; white stockings, and pale purple shoes with orange bows. In front of the stump and his right leg sits a pale purple and white terrier dog sits with its head turned to its right. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherd Bagpiper with Dog, painted in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sale at Stansted, Essex; Stanley Woolston, Cambridge from whom purchased on 30 January, 1924 for £8 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge 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: Bequeathed by Dr J.L.W. Glaisher STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41596 PEOPLE ------------------- shepherd bagpiper SUBJECTS ------------------- bagpipes dog music bagpipes dog music TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in a little blue, green, yellow, dark orange, pink, dark pink, red, pale greyish-purple, pale brown, and dark brown enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures The Man at Hyde Park Corner, Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787 Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels ---