IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42542 accession number: C.32-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 21 September 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Minstrel or Troubadour, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. 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 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 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: http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42542 PEOPLE ------------------- musician minstrel troubadour SUBJECTS ------------------- hearing guitar hearing guitar TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in polychrome enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1754 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1754 creation date latest: 1760 culture: mid-18th Century culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures ---