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Standing Chinese Woman
Maker: Wolbeer Factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted on the front and sides in blue and yellow, with a little green
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed inside and outside, and painted in blue, yellow, and greyish-green. The woman stands on a shallow square base which is open underneath. She wears a close-fitting turban-like hat coloured in bands of the three colours; a yellow roll choker with a blue bow or clasp at the front; and a long robe which conceals her hands, and is decorated on the front only with blue and yellow floral sprays. Her shoes are yellow.
History note: Lady Howard de Walden Collection; sold by Phillips Son & Neale, 1900 when bought by Miss Kingsland of Croydon; purchased from Miss Kingsland in 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 27.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Circa
1700
CE
-
1725
CE
The Berlin faience factory was founded in 1678 and was run by Gerhard Wolbeer from 1697 to 1721, and then by his son until 1754.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, yellow and a little green derived from metallic oxides)
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, painted in blue, green, and yellow
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2924-1928
Primary reference Number: 74218
Old object number: 1072
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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