IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80592 accession number: C.88A-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Troubadour playing a Guitar, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a central circular ventilation hole. The irregularly shaped mound base rises up into a broad tree stump with a diagonal branch bearing applied berries and leaves on the viewer's left. There are two flowers and leaves on the back of the stump, three flowers and leaves on the left of the base, and two flowers and leaves on the right. The troubadour sits on the stump with his left leg crossed over his right. His upper body is turned a little to his left, and he holds a guitar in both hands. He wears a pink hood and breeches, a yellow coat with grey cuffs, and a gold border, a brown sash, and a black cloak with gold edging held on by turquoise bows on the shoulders, and two ribbons tying in a bow at centre front. He has pale grey over-the-knee gaiters with black buttons, and red shoes with yellow heels, and brown soles. A pale grey broad-brimmed hat with two feathers in it lies on the ground to the viewer's right, and to the left of it, a sword with a gilded hilt. The flowers are painted in blue, pink, and yellow, and the leaves are green. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Troubadour playing a Guitar, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, 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/80592 PEOPLE ------------------- troubadour SUBJECTS ------------------- guitar guitar TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, 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 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.2 CITATIONS -------- Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795 ---