IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71619 accession number: C.1222-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 15 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The group is partly moulded and partly hand modelled from stoneware, painted with a buff coloured slip and salt-glazed. The four boy musicians wear only loin cloths and caps. Three sit on chairs; two of them are back to back with a tambourine in one hand which he is kicking with his outstretched foot; the other is in the middle, facing forward and playing the bagpipes. The fourth musician sits above the others, on the back of the middle chair; he wears a pointed hat and holds a cymbal in each hand, resting or banging them on the side musicians’ flat caps. The base is 16-sided, but roughly oblong in shape. The underside is flat with three round vent holes, one under each chair. object type: Salt-glazed stoneware figure group of four musicians. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Morrall [or Monsall?] of 48 Liverpool Street, Stoke on Trent. Bought on 10 March 1928 for £4 and ten shillings, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71619 PEOPLE ------------------- Doulton, Henry Lambeth School of Art musicians bagpiper SUBJECTS ------------------- cymbals bagpipes tambourine cymbals bagpipes tambourine TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: Art Pottery category: Doulton Lambeth ware DATING ------ creation date: 1885 - 1890 creation date earliest: 1885 creation date latest: 1890 culture: 19th Century, Late# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Doulton & Co. maker: Tinworth, George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.8 dimension: Height units: in value: 6.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20 dimension: Width units: in value: 6.625 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The A B C of English Salt-Glaze Stoneware A Tinworth Diary: Doulton's Ceramic Sculptor Catalogue of an exhibition of Doulton stoneware and terracotta, 1870-1925, part 1. 28th September to 9th October, 1971 at 141 Kensington Church Street, London, W.8. The Doulton Lambeth Wares Royal Doulton Figures: produced at Burslem, Staffordshire, c.1890-1987 George Tinworth --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1222_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1222_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1222_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1222_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1222_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1222_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1222_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1222_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels