IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42704 accession number: C.1-1965 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 28 January 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in turquoise, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, pink, puce, red, brown, beige, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The flat underside is unglazed except for a few small areas, and has a large circular ventilation hole off centre, and three large patch marks. The shallow irregularly shaped base has a rock on the left, and a tree stump on the right, which supports the base of the peep show box, which stands on four wooden legs. The boy showman stands on the right, leaving on the box on his right arm, and holding his left arm in front of him. A girl kneels on the rock, peering into the box. A basket of eggs (?) is on the rock in front of her. A little boy stands behind her. The boy showman wears a yellow hat, a turquoise jacket with gold edging, pink sash, yellow breeches with a puce floral pattern, and black shoes with yellow bows. The girl wears a white blouse, a turquoise bodice with gold edging, a white skirt with puce flowers, a yellow over skirt, and black shoes. The small boy has a white shirt and pink beeches. All the figures have greyish-black hair and ruddy cheeks. The base is painted in pale green and brown, and has applied flowers and leaves scattered all over it. The flowers are red and yellow, blue and white, and yellow and white. object type: Soft-paste porcelain group of Children at a Peep Show, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in turquoise, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, pink, puce, red, brown, beige, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42704 PEOPLE ------------------- children SUBJECTS ------------------- peep show raree show peep show raree show TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in turquoise, green, pale yellow, flesh pink, pink, puce, red, brown, beige, grey, and black enamels, and gilt slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1785 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1785 culture: late 18th century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.4 dimension: Length units: cm value: 17.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 The Old Derby China Factory Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain from Contemporary Sources Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 British and Continental Ceramics European Ceramics, 26th November 2002 Porcelain as Sculpture L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1_1965_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1_1965_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1_1965_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1_1965_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1_1965_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1_1965_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1_1965_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1_1965_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1_1965_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1_1965_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1_1965_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1_1965_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels