Delftware salt and pepper stand in the form of a woman

An image of Delftware. Stand for salt and pepper. Unidentified Delft factory, Holland. The stand is in the form of a young woman sitting on a rock or tree stump on a circular base. She wears a flowered skirt, a white chemise, and a laced manganese purple bodice, with yellow edging on its low neckline which reveals her breasts. Her visible shoe is yellow. On either side of her is a roughly oval basket which she balances on the rock with her hands. The baskets have a gadrooned edge outlined in blue and in the middle have an oval manganese-purple outline enclosing respectively, 'peper' (on her right) and sout' (salt). Pale buff eartheware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted, height, whole, 12 cm, width, whole, 20.4 cm, circa 1740-1760. Rococo.

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Delftware. Stand for salt and pepper. Unidentified Delft factory, Holland. The stand is in the form of a young woman sitting on a rock or tree stump on a circular base. She wears a flowered skirt, a white chemise, and a laced manganese purple bodice, with yellow edging on its low neckline which reveals her breasts. Her visible shoe is yellow. On either side of her is a roughly oval basket which she balances on the rock with her hands. The baskets have a gadrooned edge outlined in blue and in the middle have an oval manganese-purple outline enclosing respectively, 'peper' (on her right) and sout' (salt). Pale buff eartheware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted, height, whole, 12 cm, width, whole, 20.4 cm, circa 1740-1760. Rococo.

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Accession Number: C.2726-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 845 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 209.14kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 45/1

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18th Century Artist/Maker Artistic Movement Date Delftware Dutch Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Predominant Colours Roccoco Rococo Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd bare breasted baskets blue bodice breasts chemise condiments earthenware female floral flowers gadrooned gadroons glazed lady moulded painted pepper pepper pot pottery press moulded salt salt and pepper stand seated service ware serving piece sitting skirt stand tableware tin-glazed underwear woman yellow

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