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Dancing Boy, one of the 'New Dancers'
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Dancing Boy, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Dancing Boy, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted overglaze in pale blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, orange-red, purple, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The glazed concave underside has a circular ventilation hole under the tree. The square base has four scroll feet with a pierced rocaille motif between the front two. It rises up at the back into a tree stump with short lateral branches bearing applied leaves and flowers. The boy stands in front of the stump with his left foot advanced, right hand raised and the left hand held out in front. He has long brown hair and wears a broad-brimmed yellow hat with a green underside and gold edge, and a brown feather attached to the turned back brim at the front. He has a white shirt, an orange-red waistcoat with gold buttons, a pink coat with a blue lining, gold edges and buttons, green dotted breeches with a red, purple, and gold formal floral pattern, and black shoes with a blue flower on top of each. The scrolls on the base are picked out in gold.
Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas
Height: 19.2 cm
Width: 10.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
-
1765
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( pale blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, orange-red, purple, pale brown, and black)
gold
Details
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: EC.11A-1938
Primary reference Number: 42040
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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