IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76930 accession number: EC.28-1941 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 23 September 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Goatherd, moulded and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76930 PEOPLE ------------------- goatherd SUBJECTS ------------------- kid flask kid flask TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, second half culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bristol Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.3 dimension: Height units: in value: 10 3/4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.2 dimension: Width units: in value: 6 CITATIONS -------- Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thirty-third Annual Report, for the Year 1941 English Ceramics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_28_1941_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_EC_28_1941_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_28_1941_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_EC_28_1941_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_28_1941_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_EC_28_1941_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/EC_28_1941_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_EC_28_1941_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels