Peasant woman selling apples, by Johann Joachim Kaendler

An image of Peasant woman selling apples. Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Saxony. Kaendler, Johann Joachim, modeller (German, 1706-1775). Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in enamels, height, whole, 17.8 cm, width, whole, 11 cm, width, base, 6.2 cm, circa 1744-1750. Baroque. Over her left arm she carries a tall pale brown wicker basket full of yellow apples tinged with red, and with her right hand she proffers a single apple. Her head is wrapped a white shawl, which hangs half way down her back, and is knotted under her chin. Her face is haggard with strongly delineated black eyebrows, and red lips. She wears a white blouse with full elbow-length sleeves; a red bodice with a black front; a greyish-buff skirt bunched up around her buttocks by means of a black belt, from which dangle a black key and a brown sheath, hanging on a red strap; a white apron; white stockings; and brown shoes with red bows.

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Peasant woman selling apples. Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Saxony. Kaendler, Johann Joachim, modeller (German, 1706-1775). Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in enamels, height, whole, 17.8 cm, width, whole, 11 cm, width, base, 6.2 cm, circa 1744-1750. Baroque. Over her left arm she carries a tall pale brown wicker basket full of yellow apples tinged with red, and with her right hand she proffers a single apple. Her head is wrapped a white shawl, which hangs half way down her back, and is knotted under her chin. Her face is haggard with strongly delineated black eyebrows, and red lips. She wears a white blouse with full elbow-length sleeves; a red bodice with a black front; a greyish-buff skirt bunched up around her buttocks by means of a black belt, from which dangle a black key and a brown sheath, hanging on a red strap; a white apron; white stockings; and brown shoes with red bows.

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Accession Number: C.23-1954
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 727 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 104.56kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2014:05:23 14:21:33

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18th Century Artist/Maker Date Department Fitz_AA German Johann Joachim Kaendler Material Medium Meissen Porcelain Factory Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd _WF_Replace _WF_Replaced_OK aged apron baskets belts bodice ceramics clothes clothing costume dress elderly enamel enamelled fashion female figure figurine food food and drink fruits glazed haggard lady moulded old overglaze painted peasants polychrome porcelain press moulded seller selling shawl skirt street seller studio ceramics trade traders trading vendor wicker basket woman

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