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
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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
