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Seated Woman playing a Hurdy Gurdy
Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Salt-glazed stoneware painted in enamels
Off-white salt-glazed stoneware, press-moulded, and painted in green, yellow, pink and enamels . The woman is seated on a mound supported on a low circular base decorated with two sprays of yellow and pink flowers. She is facing the front and holds the hurdy-gurdy on her lap with both hands. She wears a green hat, a low-necked yellow bodice with pink bows on the ends of the sleeves, a green skirt, and pink shoes with yellow bows. Round her neck she has a pink flounce above a pleated fichu or chemise which fills the neckline of her bodice and has a four-petalled pink flower at centre front.
History note: Mr Bateman, Gloucester Green, Oxford from whom purchased on 20 March 1913 for £70 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( green, yellow, pink, and a little red)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
off-white Stoneware
Press-moulding
: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, assembled, salt-glazed and painted ing reen, yellow, pink, and a little red enamel
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.816-1928
Primary reference Number: 76147
Old object number: 3659
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Seated Woman playing a Hurdy Gurdy" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76147 Accessed: 2024-12-26 18:16:32
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