IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140262 accession number: C.3214-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Greyish-hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed. The underside is flat and unglazed and has a large round ventilation hole at the back. The figures are supported on a circular base with a mound in the centre, and a tree-trunk with open spaces between its roots at the back. On its top is a circular base of a missing feature. The couple are standing side by side with their inside arms linked, looking towards each other. The woman holds her apron out with her right hand and he has his left arm bent with the back of his hand to his thigh. The girl wears a hat decorated with ribbons perched on top of her head, a bodice with a basque, and a sash over her right shoulder and tied at the waist; a skirt, apron and buckled shoes. The man has a broad-brimmed hat turned up at the sides and decorated with a knot of ribbon and a long feather; a shirt, open jacket, a sash round the waist, ankle-length breeches, and buckle shoes. object type: Greyish-white hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Mitchell (formerly Mrs Isted), Southampton, from whom purchased on 5 January 1920 for £7 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140262 PEOPLE ------------------- man woman SUBJECTS ------------------- dancing dancing TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Le Nove Porcelain Factory CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fine Furniture, Tapestries, Ceramics, Clocks, Silver & Carpets ---