IDENTIFIERS
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id:	42040
accession number:	EC.11A-1938

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: 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.
title:	figure

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42040

PEOPLE
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boy

SUBJECTS
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dancing
dancing



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1765
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1765
culture:	18th Century, third quarter
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 19.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10.6



CITATIONS
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Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774
European Ceramics, Glass, Silver & Vertu
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