Female Triangle Player from the 'Idyllic Musicians'
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
(Factory)
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Triangle Player, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Triangle Player, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in dark blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, dark puce, orange-red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The circular mound base has three lobes at the front, and has a glazed concave underside with a circular ventilation hole near the back. The top is decorated with rocaille scrolls and four applied flowers and leaves. The figure is supported by a tree stump with a branch on each side bearing applied flowers and leaves. At its base at the back there is a square aperture to take an attachment, probably a candle branch. The girl stands with her feet slightly apart, her head turned to her left, and her arms bent at the elbows, holding a triangle in her right hand, in her left a now missing stick. On her head she has a red and a puce feather, and an orange-red flower attached to a flowing yellow streamer, and round her neck, a puce necklace with a small cross pendant. She wears a white chemise with elbow length sleeves under a puce bodice with a basque, and three blue pompoms down the stomacher, a blue and puce striped petticoat with gilt ornament, and a pink skirt at the back, and yellow overskirt which is hitched up all round. Her shoes are yellow with a small yellow buckle. The tree has two dark puce, a yellow, and an orange flower. The top of the base is picked out in turquoise, green, and gold.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 18.0 cm
Width: 8.0 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1932)
by
Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Second half of 18th century
George II or George III
Circa
1760
-
1765
Decoration composed of enamels ( dark blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, dark puce, orange-red, brown, and black) gold Details
presumed lead Lead-glaze presumed phosphatic Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding : Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted in enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: circular paper label
Accession number: C.65-1932
Primary reference Number: 41911
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Female Triangle Player from the 'Idyllic Musicians'"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41911 Accessed: 2022-07-05 01:46:17
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Accession Number: 129
Accession Number: E.GA.4378.1943
Accession Number: PD.142-1948
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