IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71378 accession number: C.112-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 24 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: figure LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71378 PEOPLE ------------------- girl SUBJECTS ------------------- lute music lute music TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1806 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1806 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 10.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.8 CITATIONS -------- The Old Derby China Factory Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Derby Porcelain Derby Porcelain 1750-1848 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_112_1932_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_112_1932_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_112_1932_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_112_1932_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_112_1932_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_112_1932_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_112_1932_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_112_1932_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels