Object Detail
Description
figure, pair, musician and dancer. Figure of a male musician or minstrel standing beneath the boughs of a tree which form an arch above his head. He strums a guitar or lute which he holds in an upright position to his left. He stands casually against the tree with his right leg hooked behind his left. He wears a form of turban with a white tunic embellished with gold foliate decoration, a white shirt, pink breeches and an orange sash at his waist. The tree and ground painted brown and applied with shredded clay foliage; the body of the guitar painted red-brown. Gold line across the front of the oval base. The reverse undecorated. Small punched hole in base and at top of tree. figure of a female dancer posed beneath the boughs of a tree which form an arch above her head. Her left hand is on her hip, her right above her head. The bottom of her dress features a border of overlapping double crosses and waved yellow stripes, the skirt and sleeves embellished with gold foliate decoration. The tree is painted brown over a yellow ground and is applied with shredded clay, brown hair, black shoes and black dots on bodice to shoulders. Gold line across the front of the oval base.
Maker and role
manufacturer: unknown
Production place
Staffordshire potteries district, Staffordshire, England
Production date
circa 1850-circa 1860
Media description
earthenware, glazed
Measurements
male 192 x 90 mm
female 189 x 90 mm
female 189 x 90 mm
Inscriptions
Female-small hand-painted "x" in overglaze red-brown beneath base.
Credit line
Foundation Collection, 1989
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell
Accession number
A0170
TJC reference number
193
