IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 41911 accession number: C.65-1932 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 Female Triangle Player, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in dark blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, dark puce, orange-red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The circular mound base has three lobes at the front, and has a glazed concave underside with a circular ventilation hole near the back. The top is decorated with rocaille scrolls and four applied flowers and leaves. The figure is supported by a tree stump with a branch on each side 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 girl stands with her feet slightly apart, her head turned to her left, and her arms bent at the elbows, holding a triangle in her right hand, in her left a now missing stick. On her head she has a red and a puce feather, and an orange-red flower attached to a flowing yellow streamer, and round her neck, a puce necklace with a small cross pendant. She wears a white chemise with elbow length sleeves under a puce bodice with a basque, and three blue pompoms down the stomacher, a blue and puce striped petticoat with gilt ornament, and a pink skirt at the back, and yellow overskirt which is hitched up all round. Her shoes are yellow with a small yellow buckle. The tree has two dark puce, a yellow, and an orange flower. The top of the base is picked out in turquoise, green, and gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Triangle Player, press-moulded, and 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/41911 PEOPLE ------------------- musician SUBJECTS ------------------- triangle music triangle music TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted in enamels, and gilt press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, second half# culture: George II or George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8.0 CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774 Bow Porcelain: The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774 ---