Skip to main content

Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy: EC.9-1938

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Titles

Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy

Maker(s)

Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

Entities

Categories

Description

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.

Notes

History note: Unknown before testator

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas

Measurements and weight

Height: 18.0 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Stratford-le-Bow ⪼ Essex ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.

Dating

18th Century, second half#
George III
Circa 1765 - 1770

School or Style

Rococo

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

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

Materials used in production

presumed lead Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

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)

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: EC.9-1938
Primary reference Number: 42011
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 4 May 2012 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/42011 Accessed: 2024-11-02 20:26:44

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/42011 |title=Seated Girl playing a Hurdy-Gurdy |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-02 20:26:44|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-42011

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...