IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42011 accession number: EC.9-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, pale pink, puce, orange-red, pale brown, and black enamels and gilt. The square base has rocaille decoration round the edges, and four scroll feet. The underside is open and glazed, apart from the feet. The girl sits on a tree stump with her head turned to her right, and her right foot crossed over the left, holding a hurdy-gurdy on her left knee with both hands. She wears a small white hat with a black underside, a white frill round her neck, a white chemise, a blue and a blue bodice with a pink and white basque, a yellow skirt and a flowered petticoat. A pink cloak is attached to her shoulders at the back, passes below her and round across in front of her to end on her right side at the back. Her shoes are black with gold buckles. The hurdy-gurdy is pale brown with black details. The base is picked out in pale pink and puce, and has two applied flowers, each with three leaves. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator 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/42011 PEOPLE ------------------- girl SUBJECTS ------------------- hurdy-gurdy music hurdy-gurdy music TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, pale pink, puce, orange-red, pale brown, and black enamels and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, second half culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.0 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art ---