Huntsman playing a Flute to a Lady: C.33-1992

Titles

Huntsman playing a Flute to a Lady

Maker(s)

Factory: Derby Porcelain Factory
Proprietor: Andrew Planché

Entities

• Figure group

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain, with clear glaze and dry edge, of a huntsman playing a flute to a lady who is seated beside him holding a sheet of music.

Creamy-white soft-paste porcelain of a huntsman playing a flute to a lady, slip-cast, with clear lead-glaze, and dry edge. The unglazed underside has a circular ventilation hole in the middle. The oval base has a low rock running across the back which rises up to form a seat on the viewer's left, and has an applied bud and leaves beside it. In the middle there is a circular hole to take an attachment. The huntsman sits on the rock with his left leg forward and right stretched out behind him. He leans forward and originally held a flute in his raised hands. He wears a jockey cap, shirt with ruffles at the cuffs, a waistcoat, jacket, knee breeches, and buckled shoes. The lady reclines on the rock with her legs to the viewer's right, and leans towards the huntsman, placing her right hand on his left shoulder, and holding out a piece of music in her left hand. She wears a round frilled cap, a kerchief, and a bodice and skirt, with an apron, and buckled shoes. .

Notes

History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham d. 1967; Mrs Statham d. 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham, by whom lent anonymously in 1970; bequeathed by Miss Beryl Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Place(s) associated

• Derby ⪼ Derbyshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (1992) by H.M. Government

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa 1750 - 1754

School or Style

Rococo