Lady playing a Piccolo
Factory:
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Modeller:
David Willems
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Lady playing a Piccolo, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, brown, and black enamel, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Lady playing a Piccolo, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, brown, and black enamel, and gilt. The unglazed underside of the base has four patch marks, and a round central ventilation hole. The irregularly shaped low mound base rises up at the back into a tree stump with, on the viewer's left, a projecting branch bearing three separate applied flowers and leaves. The girl sits on the stump, leaning to her right, and turning her head to her left as she blows on the piccolo held in both hands. She has long brown hair, tied in a pony tail by a blue bow, and has a small white cap on the side of her head. She wears a white chemise, and a yellow bodice with turquoise cuffs, and gold binding. The bodice has is held together down the front by three blue bows, and there are seven more: one on each shoulder, one on each cuff, one at centre back and one at the top of the side slits. Her petticoat is turquoise, and her skirt is pink with a white lining. Her shoes are yellow with blue bows on top. The front and back of the base are applied with flowers of different colours with green or turquoise leaves.
Given by Francis L. Dickson
Height: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, brown, and black)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, brown, and black enamel, and gilt.
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: a red anchor
Inscription present: half of a circular paper label
Accession number: C.88B-1950
Primary reference Number: 80591
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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