Girl with a vase representing Autumn
Factory:
Höchst Porcelain Manufactory
Modeller:
Becker, Johann Gottfried
Hard-paste porelain painted in enamels, and gilded. A pair with C.56B-1950
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in green, yellow flesh-pink, red, purple, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The recessed underside is glazed except for the edge.The vase and figure stand on a low approximately circular base mottled on the front with green, yellow, and grey. The round vase has an aperture on the shoulder, and rises up in the centre to a shaped tray which supports three bunches of pale yellow corn stalks, and a sickle with a red-brown handle. The exterior of the vase is ridged vertically and draped with rocaille ornament painted in purple and gold. The girl kneels on her left knee on the vase with her right foot on the ground, and holds the corn stalks in both hands. She has black hair and brown eyes, and wears a white scarf tied around her head, a green bodice with a white fichu decorated with purple arrow heads between stripes around the shoulders, a white skirt with purple stripes, a white apron with red arrow motifs between stripes, and black buckled shoes.
History note: Uncertain before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 14.5 cm
Height: 5 11/16 in
Width: 11.1 cm
Width: 4⅜ in
Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
This figure and its male pair was modelled after Meissen prototypes by J.J. Kaendler. They may have formed part of a table centre with two other figures with vases
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, yellow flesh-pink, red, purple, reddish-brown, and black)
gilding
Parts
Press-moulding
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.56A-1950
Primary reference Number: 140325
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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