Current Location: In storage
Titles
Two Boys with a Bird's nest
Maker(s)
Production:
Niderviller factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. A boy holding a bird's nest which a smaller boy is trying to reach.
Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, shades of green, yellow, flesh pink, pale red, red, brown, and black enamels. The figures stand in front of a tree stump on a high stony and mossy mound, rising from a rectangular base with a yellow edge, which is hollow underneath. The older boy stands with his feet well apart, and holds a bird's nest in both hands at chest level. He looks back over his right shoulder towards a smaller boy who reaches up to his shoulder in an attempt to reach the bird's nest. The older boy has a black hat over his brown hair. He wears a white shirt, a pale red waistcoat, a brown coat, blue breeches, white stockings and black shoes with buckles. The younger boy has pale greyish-brown hair, and wears a white shirt, a pale green waistcoat, and red breeches. His legs and feet are bare. Both boys have rosy cheeks, red lips, and black eyebrows and irises. The bird's nest is brown and contains yellow chicks.
Notes
History note: Mr Gouy, Rouen, from whom purchased for 45 francs on 11 January 1905, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Depth: 10.2 cm
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 12.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
Beyerlé-Custine period
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1760
-
1775
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, shades of green, yellow,flesh pink, pale red, red, brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, tin-glazed overall except for the underside of the edge of the base, and painted in blue, shades of green, yellow,flesh pink, pale red, red, brown, and black enamels
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2371-1928
Primary reference Number: 73410
Old object number: 2212
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 8 July 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 26 August 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
