Figure
ca. 1770 (made)
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Figure of a girl feeding chickens in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Low base rippled to represent grass. The girl holds up her apron in her left hand and looks down towards five chickens, which she feeds with her right hand from the corn in her apron. Her bodice is mauve with wavy stripes, gilt edges and plastic bows painted blue.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Figure of a girl feeding chickens in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Fulda pottery, Fulda, ca. 1770. |
| Physical description | Figure of a girl feeding chickens in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Low base rippled to represent grass. The girl holds up her apron in her left hand and looks down towards five chickens, which she feeds with her right hand from the corn in her apron. Her bodice is mauve with wavy stripes, gilt edges and plastic bows painted blue. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A cross (In underglaze blue) |
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| Accession number | C.43-1949 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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