IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42484 accession number: C.25-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Street Entertainer, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellowish-green, bluish-green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, dark pink, red, purplish-grey, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is flat with a few patches of glaze here and there, and a circular ventilation hole at the back. The base has an irregular wavy leaf-shaped outline with scrolled edge, and four areas covered with impressed points. It rises up at the back into a tree trunk with a square aperture at the bottom to take an attachment. The piper stands on his left leg with his right slightly advanced and resting on the planchette, which is attached to his calf by a strap. The planchette supports two female figures facing each other. In front of it there is a begging dog. The piper holds the bagpipes in both hands and blows into the mouthpiece. He wears a black hat, a blue neck cloth, a bluish-green waistcoat, a pale pink coat with yellow collar, cuffs and lining, and gold buttons; flowered breeches, white stockings and black shoes with gold buckles. Suspended on his back by a black strap is a small brown box which rests on the top of the green and brown mottled tree stump. The dog is yellow and purplish-grey. The figures on the planchette wear black caps. One has a red jacket and blue skirt and the other a pink bodice and green skirt. The top of the base is decorated with two yellow applied flowers and one dark pink one with leaves of two shades of green. The scrolls on the base are picked out in dark greyish-black, and the tuffa-like areas are bluish-green. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Street Entertainer, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, 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 24-1970). 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/42484 PEOPLE ------------------- entertainer musician SUBJECTS ------------------- bagpipes marionette dog music bagpipes marionette dog music TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory maker: Daullé, Jean maker: Dumont, Jacques DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre: vivitur ingenio Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire des fonds français graveurs du XVIIIe siècle 18th-Century English Porcelain Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Dresden China: An Introduction to the Study of Meissen Porcelain Early Meissen Figures, The Fisher Collection Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman ---