Street cook standing beside stove, Bow Porcelain Factory

An image of Street Cook standing beside Stove. Bow Porcelain Manufactory, Essex. Kaendler, Johann Joachim, modeller, derived from (German, 1706-1775). Reinicke, Peter, modeller, derived from (German, 1715-1768). Huet, Christophe, after (French, op.1735-m.1759). Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, height, whole, 15.6 cm, depth, base, 7.0 cm, front to back, circa 1756-1760. Rococo. Production Note: This cook was copied from a Meissen model by Peter Reinicke after one of a series of coloured drawings of the 'Cries of Paris' commissioned by J.J. Kaendler from the French artist, Christophe Huet (1700-59), and executed in 1753.

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Street Cook standing beside Stove. Bow Porcelain Manufactory, Essex. Kaendler, Johann Joachim, modeller, derived from (German, 1706-1775). Reinicke, Peter, modeller, derived from (German, 1715-1768). Huet, Christophe, after (French, op.1735-m.1759). Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels, height, whole, 15.6 cm, depth, base, 7.0 cm, front to back, circa 1756-1760. Rococo. Production Note: This cook was copied from a Meissen model by Peter Reinicke after one of a series of coloured drawings of the 'Cries of Paris' commissioned by J.J. Kaendler from the French artist, Christophe Huet (1700-59), and executed in 1753.

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Accession Number: C.24-1992
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 577 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 97.85kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 45/1

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