Music
Figure Group
1780-1785 (made)
1780-1785 (made)
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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
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| Title | Music (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. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Marks, London for £10 in March 1873 |
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| Other number | Sch. I 356 - Schreiber number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 414:424-1885 |
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| Record created | August 14, 2008 |
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