We present high-speed, multicolour photometry of the faint, eclipsing cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J105754.25+275947.5. The light from this system is dominated by the white dwarf. Nonetheless, averaging many eclipses reveals additional features from the eclipse of the bright spot. This enables the fitting of a parameterised eclipse model to these average light curves, allowing the precise measurement of system parameters. We find a mass ratio of q = 0.0546 $pm$ 0.0020 and inclination i = 85.74 $pm$ 0.21$^{circ}$. The white dwarf and donor masses were found to be M$_{mathrm{w}}$ = 0.800 $pm$ 0.015 M$_{odot}$ and M$_{mathrm{d}}$ = 0.0436 $pm$ 0.0020 M$_{odot}$, respectively. A temperature T$_{mathrm{w}}$ = 13300 $pm$ 1100 K and distance d = 367 $pm$ 26 pc of the white dwarf were estimated through fitting model atmosphere predictions to multicolour fluxes. The mass of the white dwarf in SDSS 105754.25+275947.5 is close to the average for CV white dwarfs, while the donor has the lowest mass yet measured in an eclipsing CV. A low-mass donor and an orbital period (90.44 min) significantly longer than the period minimum strongly suggest that this is a bona fide period-bounce system, although formation from a white dwarf/brown dwarf binary cannot be ruled out. Very few period-minimum/period-bounce systems with precise system parameters are currently known, and as a consequence the evolution of CVs in this regime is not yet fully understood.
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