Shepherdess with Sheep
Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherdess with Sheep, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, mauve, orange-red, pale brown, brown, and black enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherdess with Sheep, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, mauve, orange-red, pale brown, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed, and has a circular ventilation hole under the figure. The approximately D-shaped mound base is moulded across the front with a C scroll, and rocaille 'frilling'. At the back it has a tree stump with a Y-shaped branch on the viewer's right, and a shorter branch on the left. The shepherdess stands facing the front with her left foot slightly advanced, and her head turned to her left. She supports an houlette in her left hand, and with her right, holds up her apron behind her. She has long pale brown hair, and wears a broad-brimmed yellow hat with a pink underside, and a mauve ribbon round the crown. She has a white chemise with full sleeves, a yellow bodice fastened with mauve bows over a turquoise stomacher, a yellow skirt, a white apron, a turquoise cloak with a pale orange lining held on by an orange ribbon across her chest, and pink shoes with red bows. On the viewer's right a sheep lies on the mound looking up at her. Its back is dappled with red wavy lines and its hooves are grey. The flowers on the base are red, mauve, and yellow, and the leaves are green. The base is picked out in pink, a little turquoise, and gold.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson
Given by Francis L. Dickson
Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Gold anchor period (1759-69)
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1765
CE
A close copy of a Meissen model of about 1750 by Friedrich Elias Meyer (1723-1785), although her hat is of a slightly different shape and she has a houlette instead of a staff.
Decoration composed of enamels ( turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, mauve, orange-red, pale brown, brown, and black) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, yellow, flesh, pink, mauve, orange-red, pale brown, brown, and black enamels, and gilt.
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: a gold anchor
Inscription present: half of a circular paper label inscribed in red ink
Accession number: C.90B-1950
Primary reference Number: 47925
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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