IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 42707 accession number: C.27A-1918 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 5 October 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ralph Griffin creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/42707 PEOPLE ------------------- musician SUBJECTS ------------------- Fife cymbal music Fife cymbal music TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.9 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 ---