IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42361 accession number: C.18-1992 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 Fiddler, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, pink, red, purple, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside of the roughly circular base is unglazed except for the depression surrounding the ventilation hole. The base has a tree stump at the back with a rectangular stone in front of it. In the back of the stump there is a rectangular hole to take an attachment. The fiddler stands on his left leg with his right foot on the stone. He holds the fiddle in his left hand and the bow (missing) in the hand of his extended right arm. He wears a broad-brimmed black hat turned up at the front, a white shirt and neck cloth, a floral coat with a pink lining and gold buttons, pink three-quarter length breeches with black embroidered borders, and black buckled shoes. At the back of the stump there is a 'v' in greyish-purple. The top of the base is decorated with two painted dark pink flowers and foliage, and an applied blue flower and three green leaves. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Fiddler, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1970 (Statham Loan 11-1970). Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M.Government in 1990 in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42361 PEOPLE ------------------- fiddler SUBJECTS ------------------- fiddle tree stump music fiddle tree stump music TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted oveglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.1 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 ---