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Asia from a set of Continents
Factory:
Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Auliczek the Elder, Dominikus Jacob
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in shades of green, flesh, pale brownish-red, brownish-red, purple, pale and dark brown, grey, and a little black. The underside is hollow and glazed apart from the outer edge, and there is a circular ventilation hold under the camel’s head. The square base has foliated corners and scrolled sides, and rises up into a tall pedestal of masonry and rocks painted in shades of pale green and grey. Attached to it on the viewer’s right is a C-scroll, and green stylized palm with three visible brown roots.. A pale brown camel’s head tilted upwards projects from the base at the front, and one of its foreleg projects from a C-scroll to the left of it. Asia is represented by a thin and palid elderly man with short grey hair and moustache, and black eyes. He sits on the pedestal with his left leg over the viewer’s left edge, and his right crossed over it. His right hand rests on the calf of that leg, and he leans back on his left which is supported by the top of the palm tree. He is nude apart from a drape which is striped in pale and darker reddish-brown.
History note: Bernard Simmons, King Street, St James's, London, where seen by Dr Glaisher on 28 June, 1917; purchased from him on Dr Glaisher's behalf by Mr Stoner (whose shop was close by) for £23, and Glaisher gave him £1 commission.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18.4 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Auliczek succeeded Bustelli as chief modeller at Nymphenburg in 1763, and remained there until 1797.
Decoration composed of enamel ( shades of green, flesh, pale brownish-red, brownish-red, purple, pale and dark brown, grey, and a little black)
Press-moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in shades of green, flesh, pale brownish-red, brownish-red, purple, pale and dark brown, grey, and a little black. The underside is hollow and glazed apart from the outer edge, and there is a circular ventilation hold under the camel’s head
Glazing
Inscription present: a hexagram with, at the points, the initials and numerals, ‘G Z m 1 a 3’
Accession number: C.3180-1928
Primary reference Number: 140239
Old object number: 5008
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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