Figure
ca. 1755 (made)
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Figure of a girl with a bird cage in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She wears a pink fillet in her hair, white bodice, pink skirt with a flowered border in purple round the bottom and white shoes. Her white apron is caught up with her right hand to support the empty cage. Behind her is a tree-stump overgrown with lichen and a pumpkin.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Figure of a girl with a bird cage in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, modelled by E. H. Reichard, Wegely's porcelain factory, Berlin, ca. 1755. |
| Physical description | Figure of a girl with a bird cage in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She wears a pink fillet in her hair, white bodice, pink skirt with a flowered border in purple round the bottom and white shoes. Her white apron is caught up with her right hand to support the empty cage. Behind her is a tree-stump overgrown with lichen and a pumpkin. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with funds from the Captain H.B. Murray Bequest |
| Object history | Copying a Sevres work 'La Cage vide ou la douleur de Babet', after Boucher. |
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| Accession number | C.472-1927 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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