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Seated Girl playing a Lute
Factory: Derby Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Seated Girl playing the Lute, slip-cast, and decorated underglaze in blue, and overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, dark maroon, brown, grey, and black enamels, and heavily gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain figure, slip-cast, and decorated underglaze in blue, and overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, dark maroon, brown, grey, and black enamels, and heavily gilt. The underside of the base is unglazed and has a large oval ventilation hold in the centre. The base is octagonal with moulded sides. The girl sits on a chair with a high back and curved legs, under which there is a pile of books. She faces front with her head tilted slightly to her left, and her left leg forward, and holds a lute in both hands. On her knee there is a King Charles Spaniel. She has a ruddy complexion and brown hair. She wears a white frill round her neck, a dark blue open robe with yellow sleeve ruffles, a white petticoat with a striped design of roses, green wavy lines, and gold foliage, and black shoes. The lute is brown; the dog pale grey and black, and the books have alternately red and maroon bindings with yellow or gold fore-edges.The chair has gold legs and rails and is upholstered in a gold diapered fabric with small blue flowers at the intersections and pink roses in the spaces. Over the back there is a red and yellow drape. The top of the base is mottled in yellow, green, and maroon, and the edges are heavily gilt.
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Depth: 10.7 cm
Height: 15.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932-10-14) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1806
CE
-
1825
CE
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, dark maroon, brown, grey, and black) underglaze cobalt-blue gold
might be bone china
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and decorated underglaze in blue, and overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, dark maroon, brown, grey, and black enamels, and heavily gilt. The underside of the base is unglazed and has a large oval ventilation hold in the centre
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.112-1932
Primary reference Number: 71378
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Seated Girl playing a Lute" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71378 Accessed: 2024-11-17 11:49:17
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