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Peasant Woman holding a Hen
Factory:
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Kändler, Johann Joachim
Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, pale and dark brown, and black enamels. The peasant woman stands on a low white circular base, encrusted with coloured flowers and foliage, and points with her right hand to the bottom of a brown and white hen, which she carries on her left arm. She wears a black cap, wrapped with a white cloth knotted at the back. Her brown bodice has a black front with brown shoulder-straps, a white kerchief hanging down over her back, over a white chemise with turned up sleeves. A long white skirt is under a pale straw coloured apron, and she also wears white stockings and black shoes with pale straw bows.
History note: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 21 April 1933 for £35 by Cecil Vavasseur Fisher, 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone; Lord and Lady Fisher
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 20.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1745
-
1750
The peasant woman is looking at the hen's bottom to see if it has an egg ready to lay. The model dates from 1744 when it was mentioned in Kaendler's work report for March 1744, and in his undated Taxa c. 1740-44. The figure is Model 526 in the Meissen Directory of Models, 1730-1831, transcript, after 1900.
Surface
composed of
glaze
( clear)
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, pale and dark brown, and black)
Details
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in green, pale yellow, flesh pink, red, pale and dark brown, and black enamels
Accession number: C.15-1954
Primary reference Number: 140134
Old object number: 407
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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