IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41987 accession number: EC.5A-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 May 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Musician, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, painted over lead glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, puce, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. Apart from the feet the underside is glazed and has a circular ventilation hole in the centre. The square base has four scroll feet with a rocaille motif between the front two. At the back there is a tree stump with on each side, a low branch bearing applied leaves. On the front there is a blue flower with three leaves, and three leaves with flower missing. The musician sits with his right leg crossed behind his left. His head is tilted to his right, and he blows a flageolet which he holds in his left hand. His right arm is held across his body in order to beat the tabor which is suspended on his left on a blue strap. He has brown hair, and wears a black hat, a white neckcloth and shirt, a pale yellow waistcoat with a puce and gold border, a pink jacket with a blue collar and lining and gold edges and buttons, flowered white breeches with puce rosettes at the knees, white stockings and black shoes with puce flowers on top. His tabour has pink sides and blue and gold bands round the top and a blue band round the bottom. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Musician, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, painted over lead glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, puce, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. title: figure LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41987 PEOPLE ------------------- musician SUBJECTS ------------------- flageolet tabour music flageolet tabour music TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, painted over lead glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, puce, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.1 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_5A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_5A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_5A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_5A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_5A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_5A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_5A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_5A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_5A_1938_285_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5A_1938_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_5A_1938_285_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels