Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, pale pink, puce, orange-red, pale brown, and black enamels and gilt. The square base has rocaille decoration round the edges, and four scroll feet. The underside is open and glazed, apart from the feet. The girl sits on a tree stump with her head turned to her right, and her right foot crossed over the left, holding a hurdy-gurdy on her left knee with both hands. She wears a small white hat with a black underside, a white frill round her neck, a white chemise, a blue and a blue bodice with a pink and white basque, a yellow skirt and a flowered petticoat. A pink cloak is attached to her shoulders at the back, passes below her and round across in front of her to end on her right side at the back. Her shoes are black with gold buckles. The hurdy-gurdy is pale brown with black details. The base is picked out in pale pink and puce, and has two applied flowers, each with three leaves.
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas
Height: 18.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century, second half#
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, pale pink, puce, orange-red, pale brown, and black)
gold
Across Back Of Feet
Width 9.1 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, pale pink, puce, orange-red, pale brown, and black enamels and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: EC.9-1938
Primary reference Number: 42011
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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