IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41910 accession number: C.64-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 31 March 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Flageolet Player, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in dark blue, pale blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, dark puce, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The circular mound base has three lobes at the front, and its concave underside has a ventilation hole near the back. The glaze has a greenish tinge. The top is decorated with rococo scrolls in low relief and applied flowers and leaves. The figure is supported by a tree stump with one branch on the viewer's right, and two on the left, bearing applied flowers and leaves. At its base at the back there is a square aperture to take an attachment, probably a candle branch. The musician stands on his right leg with the left relaxed beside it. He holds a flageolet to his lips with his left hand, and with his right, holds a drumstick with which he is striking a tabour attached to his waist. He wears a yellow hat with a gold edge and a dark puce, a red, and a blue feather at the front. He has a white shirt with a turquoise bow on the left wrist, a dark puce jacket with gold buttons, a dark blue waistcoat with gold edge, turquoise breeches with puce and gold flowers in reserves, and puce bows at the knee, pale yellow stockings, and black shoes with gold buckles. A bag is suspended over his hip by a strap. The edge of the base is picked out in turquoise, green, and gold, and the flowers on its top are respectively dark puce, red, blue, and partly blue. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Flageolet Player, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41910 PEOPLE ------------------- musician SUBJECTS ------------------- flageolet tabour flageolet tabour TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, second half# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.1 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman ---