Troubadour playing a Guitar
Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Troubadour playing a Guitar, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Troubadour playing a Guitar, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The unglazed underside has a central circular ventilation hole. The irregularly shaped mound base rises up into a broad tree stump with a diagonal branch bearing applied berries and leaves on the viewer's left. There are two flowers and leaves on the back of the stump, three flowers and leaves on the left of the base, and two flowers and leaves on the right.
The troubadour sits on the stump with his left leg crossed over his right. His upper body is turned a little to his left, and he holds a guitar in both hands. He wears a pink hood and breeches, a yellow coat with grey cuffs, and a gold border, a brown sash, and a black cloak with gold edging held on by turquoise bows on the shoulders, and two ribbons tying in a bow at centre front. He has pale grey over-the-knee gaiters with black buttons, and red shoes with yellow heels, and brown soles. A pale grey broad-brimmed hat with two feathers in it lies on the ground to the viewer's right, and to the left of it, a sword with a gilded hilt. The flowers are painted in blue, pink, and yellow, and the leaves are green.
Given by Francis L. Dickson
Height: 16.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, purple, brown, grey, and black) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh, pink, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: a very small red anchor
Inscription present: half of a circular paper label
Accession number: C.88A-1950
Primary reference Number: 80592
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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