IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82682 accession number: C.33-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Creamy-white soft-paste porcelain of a huntsman playing a flute to a lady, slip-cast, with clear lead-glaze, and dry edge. The unglazed underside has a circular ventilation hole in the middle. The oval base has a low rock running across the back which rises up to form a seat on the viewer's left, and has an applied bud and leaves beside it. In the middle there is a circular hole to take an attachment. The huntsman sits on the rock with his left leg forward and right stretched out behind him. He leans forward and originally held a flute in his raised hands. He wears a jockey cap, shirt with ruffles at the cuffs, a waistcoat, jacket, knee breeches, and buckled shoes. The lady reclines on the rock with her legs to the viewer's right, and leans towards the huntsman, placing her right hand on his left shoulder, and holding out a piece of music in her left hand. She wears a round frilled cap, a kerchief, and a bodice and skirt, with an apron, and buckled shoes. . object type: Soft-paste porcelain, with clear glaze and dry edge, of a huntsman playing a flute to a lady who is seated beside him holding a sheet of music. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham d. 1967; Mrs Statham d. 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham, by whom lent anonymously in 1970; bequeathed by Miss Beryl Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Statham Collection creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82682 PEOPLE ------------------- Statham, Hugh, Dr Statham, Margaret huntsman lady SUBJECTS ------------------- music music TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, with clear lead-glaze, and dry edge. The underside has a circular ventilation hole in the middle. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1754 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1754 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: Andrew Planché DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 18.5 CITATIONS -------- English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years 1750-1770 ---