IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82505 accession number: C.77-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 July 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a dwarf, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in pale greyish-blue, turquoise, green, yellow, pink, red, purple, grey, and black enamels. The underside of the base is unglazed and has a large circular ventilation hole, and three patch marks. The circular base has deep rounded sides, painted to resemble grass, and rises up into a small low stump in the centre. The dwarf stands with his feet on either side of it. He faces the front, holds a yellow staff in his left hand, and places his right on his waist. He has grey hair, moustache, eyebrows and eyes, and a red mouth, which is wide open. He wears a tall pale greyish-blue hat with red underside to the brim, and a black scarf round the crown to which is attached a bunch of white and red feathers. He has a peasecod double with a pale yellow ground and purple floral pattern, except for a strip down the centre front which has a harlequin pattern and purple buttons. On his right shoulder there are yellow, pink, red, and turquoise tabs, and on the left shoulder, pink, red, and yellow ones. His trunk hose are pink and his shoes black with reserved white buckles. A pair with C.76-1933 object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a dwarf wearing a tall hat, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: A.V. Valentine-Richards Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82505 PEOPLE ------------------- dwarf SUBJECTS ------------------- hat staff hat staff TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted overglaze in pale greyish-blue, turquoise, green, yellow, pink, red, purple, grey, and black enamels. The underside of the base is unglazed and has a large circular ventilation hole, surrounded by three patch marks. slip casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1790 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: 17.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.9 CITATIONS -------- The Old Derby China Factory Jacques Callot Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 ---