IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82504 accession number: C.76-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 3 April 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a dwarf, slip cast, and painted overglaze in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, puce, red, grey, and black enamels. The unglazed underside has a large circular ventilation hold in the centre surrounded by three patch marks. The roughly circular low mound base, has a tree stump in the middle which supports the figure. The dwarf stands with his feet together slightly pigeon-toed . He has his left hand on his paunch, and in his right holds a small drumstick or rattle. He has greyish-black hair, brows, and eyes, pink cheeks andna large red mouth. He wears an enormous pale turquoise slouch hat, with a puce underside to the brim, which is turned up at the front. A red ribbon is arround the crown, and a bunch of turquoise and yellow leaves (?) is attached to the proper left side. He has a white shirt under a yellow bodice decorated with playing cards, a shovel, tongues, griddle and a mask, all black, and down the front with mulitcolour harlequin pattern, and puce buttons. Around his waist (if one can call it that) he has a green sash with puce borders on the ends. His legs are striped in yellow, puce, and turquoise, and he has black shoes. A pair with C.77-1933 object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a dwarf with a prominent paunch, painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: The Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82504 PEOPLE ------------------- dwarf SUBJECTS ------------------- hat hat TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip cast, lead-glazed and painted overglaze in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, puce, red, grey, and black enamels. The underside is unglazed and has a large circular ventilation hole and three patch marks. slip casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. maker: Callot, Jacques DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- The Old Derby China Factory Jacques Callot Derby Porcelain Old English Porcelain Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Derby Porcelain 1748-1848, An Illustrated Guide Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 ---