IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140334 accession number: C.6-1950 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed except for the underside, which has a large circular ventilation hole. The base is roughly rectangular with a wavy edge, and rises up into a sloping mossy bank with a low tree stump on the viewer's right. A flower surrounded by eight leaves is applied to the ground in front of the stump. The elegant shepherd reclines on the bank, leaning his right elbow on the stump, and holding the peg end of the lute in his left hand and plucking its strings with his right. His head is turned sharply to the viewer's left, his right leg is extended behind him, and his right foot projects over the left front of the base. He wears a tricorne hat, a buttoned up coat, breeches with bows at the knees, and shoes tied on top. object type: glazed hard-paste porcelain title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.E. Backer, London 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/140334 SUBJECTS ------------------- lute lute TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and glazed press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: Max III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria CREATORS -------- maker: Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory maker: Bustelli, Franz Anton DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 14.9 CITATIONS -------- Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg Early European Porcelain from the Collection of Ernesto F. Blohm Nymphenburger Porzellan : Sammlung Bäuml ---