IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140297 accession number: C.44-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, pale green, pale yellow, mauve, flesh pink, red, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a small ventilation hole to right of centre near the back. The roughly rectangular low base is straight across the back and has a shaped edge at the front and sides, which are barely glazed, rough, and speckled. It rises up at the back into a rock with a tree stump growing out of it. The man and woman stand in front of it holding each other round the waist and looking towards each other. The man, on the viewer’s left, steps forward on his right leg with his left extended behind him, and his left arm bent at the elbow so that he can hold the girl’s left hand. She steps forward on her left leg, and holds up her apron with her right hand. He has grey hair tied in a queue with a gold bow, a white shirt, pale green jacket with gold edging, mauve breeches with gold bows at the knees and black shoes with gold bows. She has a blushing complexion and ringlets, and wears a green and yellow cap, a gold bow on her neck, a mauve bodice with a pale blue and gold stomacher, a white apron with a gold edge, a pale yellow skirt decorated with blue flowers at the intersections of a black trellis pattern, pale green stockings, black shoes with a gold flap at the top, and dark grey mittens with a gold motif on the back of her right hand. object type: Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.E. Backer, London, from whom purchased LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Dr F.R. Cowper Reed Bequest Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140297 SUBJECTS ------------------- dancing dancing TECHNIQUES ---------- Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted overglaze in blue, pale green, pale yellow, mauve, flesh pink, red, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a small ventilation hole to right of centre near the back press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Capodimonte Porcelain Factory maker: Gricci, Giuseppe, modeller DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 8 1/16 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.8 dimension: Width units: in value: 5 7/16 CITATIONS -------- Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for the year 1950 Italian Porcelain, with a note on Buen Retiro La porcellana di Capodimonte : storia della manifattura borbonica English and Continental Pottery and Porcelain Le porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, 1743-1806 Early European Porcelain and Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_44_1950.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_44_1950.jpg height: 750 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_44_1950.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 507 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_44_1950.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 250 pixels