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Figure. A baker's boy. Meissen Porcelain Factory, Germany, Saxony, Meissen. The flat, unglazed underside has a very small circular ventilation hold under the figure. The low rectangular base has an asymetrical point at the front, and rises up at the back into a heap of rocks which supports the figure. The top of the base is decorated with applied leaves, two mauve flowers with yellow centres, and a yellow flower with a mauve centre. The youth steps forward on his right leg and has his left behind him. He stoops under the weight of a huge cream wicker basket filled with buff-coloured oval loaves, which he supports with his right hand. His left is by his side holding three brown wooden tallies on a string. He has pale greyish- brown hair partly hidden by a white stocking cap, and wears a white shirt, a three-quarter-length pale mauve coat with gold buttons, green breeches almost totally concealed by a long white apron, white stockings, and black shoes with gold buckles. Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded and painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, pale mauve, cream, buff, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt. Height, whole, 18.4 cm, width 7.5 cm, depth, whole, 10.5 cm, circa 1747-1750. Production Note: Modelled about 1747 after the 'GarÃ§on Boulanger', plate 11 in the first set of Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple ou les Cris de Paris, engraved by the Comte de Caylus (1692-1765) after drawings by EdmÃ© Bouchardon (1689-1762), published in 1737. Acquisition Credit: Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund.
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