IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80591 accession number: C.88B-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: figure LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Francis L. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80591 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- piccolo piccolo TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, brown, and black enamel, and gilt. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1755 culture: Red anchor period (1752-1756) culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory maker: David Willems DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15 CITATIONS -------- Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery Chelsea Porcelain, the Red Anchor Wares ---