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Female Musician with Zither
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Musician, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Musician, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The glazed underside has a large circular ventilation hole under the tree stump. The square base has four scroll feet, with a rocaille motif between the front two. At the back there is a tree stump with lateral branches bearing two applied flowers and leaves, and having at its bottom, a rectangular aperture to take an attachment.
The female musician sits on the tree stump with her right foot resting on a stone. Her head is turned to her left, and she holds her hands over a zither balanced on her right knee. She wears a small yellow hat with a blue veil at the back, a white ruffle round her neck, and a pink high-necked jacket-bodice with yellow trimming down the front opening and cuffs, and gold edging. Her skirt is yellow at the back, white with a floral pattern at the front, and has a gold border and yellow fringed lower edge. She wears black shoes with blue and yellow flowers on top. The zither is yellow, brown, and gold, and has a black carrying strap. There is a blue flower and leaves on the proper right top of the base, and a pink flower and leaves on the left.
Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas
Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 11.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, a little red, brown, and black)
lead-glaze
( presumed lead)
gold
Details
presumed phosphatic Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, a little red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt
Lead-glazing
Accession number: EC.5B-1938
Primary reference Number: 41988
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Female Musician with Zither" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41988 Accessed: 2024-11-08 10:36:40
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