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Figure of a Nymph
Factory:
Ludwigsburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Beyer, Johann Christian Wilhelm
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, flesh pink, greyish-pink, red, pale greyish-brown, and a little black enamel, and gilt. The glazed underside is concave and has two ventilation holes to the left of centre. The oval base has sloping sides and an almost flat top painted here and there with green. At the back on the viewer’s left there is a tall urn-shaped vase with gold edges, and beside it a group of small applied leaves (now chipped off). On the top at the front there is the remnant of a pink flower, and a leaf. The nymph steps forward on her left leg with her upper body in contraposto. She looks and leans downwards and in both hands holds a large shallow shell filled with two mottled pink shells, coral and pearls. Her long greyish-brown hair hangs down in two wavy tresses over her shoulders and at the sides of her head is interwoven with green ribbon and peals. her face is delicated tinted flesh-pink, and she has black eyes, and red lips. Her upper armsare encircled by gilded armbands studded with large white beads, and the lower part of her body is wrapped in a white drape.
History note: Unknown before testator
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 22.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1766
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( green, flesh pink, greyish-pink, red, pale greyish-brown, and a little black)
gilding
Front To Back
Depth 10.5 cm
Press-moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, painted in green, flesh pink, greyish-pink, red, pale greyish-brown, and a little black enamel, and gilt.
Glazing
Accession number: MAR.C.40-1912
Primary reference Number: 77366
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Figure of a Nymph" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/77366 Accessed: 2024-12-22 09:59:09
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