Cane handle in the form of a young woman, Nymphenburg factory

An image of Cane Handle. Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, Bavaria. Bustelli, Franz Anton, modeller (Swiss, 1723-1763). In the form of a bust of a young woman with an integral, waisted sockle, with lightly fluted sides, and scrolls below her bust and round the back of her shoulders. The young woman's head is turned and tilted slightly to her left. She has long curling black hair which hangs down over her shouilders at the back and sides. She wears a yellow and purple striped bonnet with a green underside to the brim, and green ribbons tied under her chin, and a white bodice or chemise. The sockle is decorated with an inverted leaf-shaped outline in blue on the front, and a purple one on the back, The scrolls round its upper edge are gilded, and there is a horizontal gold band just above the lower edge. Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh, a little red, purple, and black enamels, and gilded; the interior is hollow and unglazed. Height, whole, 8 cm, width, shoulders, 3.5 cm, circal 1769-1760. Rococo.

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Cane Handle. Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, Bavaria. Bustelli, Franz Anton, modeller (Swiss, 1723-1763). In the form of a bust of a young woman with an integral, waisted sockle, with lightly fluted sides, and scrolls below her bust and round the back of her shoulders. The young woman's head is turned and tilted slightly to her left. She has long curling black hair which hangs down over her shouilders at the back and sides. She wears a yellow and purple striped bonnet with a green underside to the brim, and green ribbons tied under her chin, and a white bodice or chemise. The sockle is decorated with an inverted leaf-shaped outline in blue on the front, and a purple one on the back, The scrolls round its upper edge are gilded, and there is a horizontal gold band just above the lower edge. Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh, a little red, purple, and black enamels, and gilded; the interior is hollow and unglazed. Height, whole, 8 cm, width, shoulders, 3.5 cm, circal 1769-1760. Rococo.

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Accession Number: C.8-1950
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 124.70kB
Exposure time: 1/45
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century Artist/Maker Artistic Movement Bavarian Date Department Fitz_AA Franz Anton Bustelli German Material Medium Nationalities Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory Object Type Other Keywords Predominant Colours Roccoco Rococo Swiss Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd bonnet busts cane cane handle ceramics chemise clothes clothing corset costume dress enamel enamelled fashion female gilded gilt glazed green handle handled hard-paste porcelain hats heads lady long hair moulded objet de vertu painted porcelain press moulded straw hat studio ceramics white woman young

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