IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41988 accession number: EC.5B-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 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. object type: 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. 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/41988 PEOPLE ------------------- musician SUBJECTS ------------------- zither music zither music TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.8 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_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_5B_1938_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels