Musician with Fife and Tabor: C.27A-1918

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Titles

Musician with Fife and Tabor

Maker(s)

Factory: Derby Porcelain Factory
Proprietor: William Duesbury & Co.

Entities

Figure

Description

Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, and gilt

Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast with applied details, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, orange-red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed, and has a large circular ventilation hole at the back. The roughly circular mound base is moulded round the front with scrolls and a rocaille 'frill', and at the back has a tree stump with projecting branches on each side bearing profuse flowers and foliage. The man stands with his left foot forward, facing front, blowing a pipe held in his left hand, from the wrist of which is suspended on a red ribbon, a tabor, which he srikes with a stick held in his right hand. He wears a black broad-brimmed hat, a white shirt, an orange-red waistcoat, a pink jacket with a turquoise collar and lining, and gold buttons, white breeches with a red, blue and gold floral pattern, and black shoes with red flowers on top. A brown bag protrudes from his right side. The flowers on the bocage are of two types with red and yellow, blue and red, or puce and yellow centres. The top of the base is green, the 'frill' turquoise, and the scrolls gold.