IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 82745 accession number: C.36-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a lady playing a mandoline, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted onglaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, pink, brownish-red, mauve, grey, and black enamels, and lightly gilt. The underside is unglazed, and slightly rought with three patch marks, and has a small ventilation hole at the back. The base is roughly circular with a frilled scroll on the viewer's left, a shell at the front, and an acanthus leaf on the right. It rises up at the back into a rock, which is pierced by a circular hole to take an attachment, probably a candle branch. The woman sits, leaning forward slightly, and holding her lute in both hands. She a white round cap trimmed with turquoise ribbon, a white open robe with a multicolour floral pattern, yellow lining and robings, and white ruffles at the elbows, a mauve stomacher, and a white petticoat with a pattern of small mauve flowers, and foliage, and pale mauve shoes. A narrow gold line runs round the hem.The base is picked out in puce, and turquoise, and there are touches of gold on the top of the shell. object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of a lady playing a mandoline, seated on a rock on a low base edged with a scroll, shell, and acanthus, painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; died respectively 1967 and 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 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/82745 PEOPLE ------------------- Statham, Hugh, Dr Statham, Margaret lady SUBJECTS ------------------- lute lute TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted onglaze in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, pink, brownish-red, mauve, grey, and black enamels, and lightly gilt. The underside is unglazed, and slightly rought with three patch marks, and has a small ventilation hole at the back slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory maker: William Duesbury & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.3 CITATIONS -------- Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years 1750-1770 Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures ---