IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76372 accession number: C.9-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts and assembled, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, mustard-yellow, flesh-pink, dark pink, a little red, pale brown, dark reddish-brown, grey, and black enamels, and lightly gilt. The underside is slightly recessed and glaze. The shallow rectangular base is marbled in dark pink and grey, and is partially covered by a green rug with a yellow fringe. The cellist is seated on a dark reddish-brown stool with two white's goat's legs at the front, and leans his left elbow on a small circular table with a pale green top, gilded edges, and pale brown central support with three scroll feeet. His legs are extended to the viewer's left, and his head is turned in the same direction. He holds the mustard-yellow cello with his left hand and extends his right hand in front of him to play (the bow is missing). He has dark grey hair tied back with a black ribbon, and over it has a black tricorne hat with a green cockade on the left side, and gold edges. He wears a white shirt with ruffles at the neck and wrists, a dark pink coat, black breeches, white ruckled knee-length stockings and yellow slippers. A narrow double leaf of music rests on his right thigh, and a square piece of paper lies on the ground beside the leg of the stool. object type: hard-paste porcelain, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lady Ludlow Collection; H.E. Backer, London LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Dr F.R. Cowper Reed Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76372 PEOPLE ------------------- Ludlow, Alice, Lady musician SUBJECTS ------------------- cello music cello music TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1756 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1756 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Factory maker: Beyer, Johann Christian Wilhelm DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 11.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.8 CITATIONS -------- Ludwigsburger Porzellanfiguren German Porcelain of the 18th Century Porzellan und Musik. Eine interdisziplinäre Veranstaltungsreihe des Kunstgewerbemuseums und des Musikinstrumenten-Museums der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_9_1950_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_9_1950_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_9_1950_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_9_1950_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_9_1950_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_9_1950_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_9_1950_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_9_1950_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_9_1950_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_9_1950_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_9_1950_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_9_1950_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels