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A Goatherd
Maker(s)
Factory:
Bristol Porcelain Manufactory
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Description
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Goatherd, moulded and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels.
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, dull red, beige, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is glazed. The figure is supported on a roughly rectangular, low rocky base with a rock surmounted by a rustic fence on the viewer's right. The goatherd stands on his right leg with his left advanced, and leans on his left elbow on the fence. He looks downwards towards a brown and white kid which he holds under his right arm. He wears a wide brimmed black hat, a long white coat edged with brown and with gold buttons, a white waistcoat with a floral pattern which is confined by a belt at the waist and left unbuttoned so as to expose a white shirt open at the neck, yellow knee breaches, white stockings and brown gaiters over black shoes. A wicker covered flask with a brown strap lies to the viewer's right of his left foot. A turquoise and green plant is growing up the front of the supporting rock.
Notes
History note: Sotheby's, 8 May 1941, Catalogue of Fine Porcelain and Important Furniture removed from Newton Park, Bristol and sold by order of the executors of the Rt Hon. Algernon William Stephen fifth Earl Temple, p. 11, lot 43, sold for £33 to Harold Davies from whom bought by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam
Legal notes
Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Measurements and weight
Height: 27.3 cm
Height: 10 3/4 in
Width: 15.2 cm
Width: 6 in
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1941-06-12)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Dating
18th Century, second half
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1775
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, dull red, beige, brown, and black)
Buttons And Buckle
Materials used in production
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, clear-glazed, and painted overglaze in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, dull red, beige, brown, and black enamels, and lightly gilt
Glazing (coating)
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: EC.28-1941
Primary reference Number: 76930
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 23 September 2016
Last processed: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
