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A Tyrolian Woman selling Trinkets
Factory:
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Reinicke, Peter
Modeller:
Kändler, Johann Joachim
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, red, and dark brown enamels and gilded. She stands on a small low circular base, encrusted with yellow flowers and green foliage. In front of her she holds a brown box with dark pink lining, in which are closely packed a lot of trinkets, such as mirrors, scissors, spectacles, bucklers, and similar articles. In her right hand she holds a gold box. Over her closely cropped light hair she wears a broad pink hat with a green ribbon and golden brim. She also wears a white frilled blouse with short sleeves with green bows, under a green bodice trimmed with gold, with a white front laced with gold, a white skirt with pink lacing and trimmed with gold, a pale straw apron with pink stars and trimming, white stockings, and pink shoes.
History note: Bought from Heinz Horwitz, Berlin, on 24 March 1933, for £25 by Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher; Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund (now The Art Fund)
Height: 16.7 cm
Width: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1745
CE
-
1750
CE
Overtime reports of repairers Christian Heinrich Kaendler (1709-65) and Johann Friedrich Schmieder (1715-1780) for June/July 1738 mention ’10 Tyroler Mädgen mit Toiletten Kasten’ (10 Tyrolean Girl with toiletry box). The model was reworked by Peter Reinicke in 1744. Meissen model no. 579.
Mark
composed of
cobalt
( blue)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
gold
Accession number: C.3-1954
Primary reference Number: 140251
Old catlogue number: 368
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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