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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Music

Figure Group
1780-1785 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure group in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, representing Music, and consisting of a standing female figure in a flowered and gilt classical robe playing a flute beside a truncated column, and two boys, naked except for scarves, and one boy stands holding up a roll of music, while the other sits with a violin at the foot of the column with a tambourine, books, and a sheet of music on its top, and other instruments and a book lie on the flower-covered mound which forms the base.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMusic (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure group in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, representing Music, and consisting of a standing female playing a flute beside a column and with two boys, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, 1780-1785.
Physical description
Figure group in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, representing Music, and consisting of a standing female figure in a flowered and gilt classical robe playing a flute beside a truncated column, and two boys, naked except for scarves, and one boy stands holding up a roll of music, while the other sits with a violin at the foot of the column with a tambourine, books, and a sheet of music on its top, and other instruments and a book lie on the flower-covered mound which forms the base.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.1cm
  • Base width: 12.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'No 217' (Figure model number incised on base)
  • 'B' (Incised on base)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Marks, London for £10 in March 1873
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 356 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:424-1885

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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