Female Gardener or Gardener's Wife
Factory:
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Eberlein, Johann Friedrich
Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, bluish-green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, red, grey, and dark-brown enamels. She stands against a white stump on a flat white circular base encrusted with coloured flowers and foliage. With her left hand she holds her apron, enclosing two green marrows and three beetroot. In her right she holds a parsnip. She wears a peculiar white circular straw-hat, with an oriental looking overhang to the brim, fastened under her chin with a pink ribbon. Her bodice is bluish-green with gold buttons, and she also wears a white chemise with sleeves rolled up and fastened at the neck with a yellow string. She also wears a white apron and white skirt. Her feet are bare, and her hair is short and dark.
History note: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, for £35 on February 11, 1934, by Cecil, 2nd Lord Fisher; Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 17.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
Circa 1746 - 1750
Modelled by Eberlein in 1746
Decoration
composed of
enamel
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
Accession number: C.11-1954
Primary reference Number: 140100
Old object number: 393
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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