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Baker's boy
Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded and painted in green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, pale mauve, cream, buff, pale brown, and black enamels, and gilt. 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.
History note: Purchased by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone from Albert Amor, London on 4 December 1937 for £60
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Depth: 10.5 cm
Height: 18.4 cm
Width: 7.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1747
CE
-
1750
CE
Modelled about 1747 after the 'Garçon Boulanger', plate 11 in the first set of' Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple ou les Cris de Paris', engraved by the Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (1692-1765) after drawings by Edmé Bouchardon (1689-1762), published in 1737. The figure is Meissen Manufactory model no. 877.
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
( clear)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, mauve, cream, buff, pale brown, and black)
gold
Inscription present: circular white paper label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.33-1954
Primary reference Number: 140267
Model number: 877
Old catalogue number: 417
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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