Seated Minstrel or Troubadour representing Hearing from a Set of Senses: C.32-1992

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

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Seated Minstrel or Troubadour representing Hearing from a Set of Senses

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Description

Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Minstrel or Troubadour, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels.

Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Minstrel or Troubadour, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in yellow, green, red, brown, purple, and dark grey enamels. The unglazed underside of the roughly oval base is flat and has a circular ventilation hole in the centre. The minstrel sits on a tree stump with a projecting branch, decorated with applied berries and leaves. His right leg is crossed over his left, with its foot resting on a smaller tree stump at the front of the base, and he holds a guitar across his body. He wears a nightcap with a red turned-back brim, a white shirt, a narrow purple bow tied round the neck, a floral waistcoat, yellow and brown striped breeches, white baggy stockings, and red shoes. The guitar is brown, and the leaves on the tree stump are green and the berries red. In the back of the tree stump there is a square aperture to take an attachment, perhaps a candle branch.

Notes

History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1988 (Statham Loan 15-1988). Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum