Musician with Fife and Tabor
Factory:
Derby Porcelain Factory
Proprietor:
William Duesbury & Co.
Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt
Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast with applied details, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, orange-red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed, and has a large circular ventilation hole at the back. The roughly circular mound base is moulded round the front with scrolls and a rocaille 'frill', and at the back has a tree stump with projecting branches on each side bearing profuse flowers and foliage. The man stands with his left foot forward, facing front, blowing a pipe held in his left hand, from the wrist of which is suspended on a red ribbon, a tabor, which he srikes with a stick held in his right hand. He wears a black broad-brimmed hat, a white shirt, an orange-red waistcoat, a pink jacket with a turquoise collar and lining, and gold buttons, white breeches with a red, blue and gold floral pattern, and black shoes with red flowers on top. A brown bag protrudes from his right side. The flowers on the bocage are of two types with red and yellow, blue and red, or puce and yellow centres. The top of the base is green, the 'frill' turquoise, and the scrolls gold.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 18 cm
Width: 12.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
This figure and its pair are known as The Idyllic Musicians
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, orange-red, brown, and black)
gold
Details
Main Parts
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.27A-1918
Primary reference Number: 42707
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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