Figure
mid 18th century (made), 1740 (modelled)
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Figure group of a tailor on a goat, of hard-paste porcelain. Man with tricorn hat and long coat astride at back and holding aloft shears in his right hand. Flowered, rectangular base. Painted with enamel colours and gilt: the coat pale yellow with coloured Indian flowers, the goat black and white.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Figure group of a tailor on a goat, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, modelled by J. J. Kändler, 1740, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, mid 18th century |
| Physical description | Figure group of a tailor on a goat, of hard-paste porcelain. Man with tricorn hat and long coat astride at back and holding aloft shears in his right hand. Flowered, rectangular base. Painted with enamel colours and gilt: the coat pale yellow with coloured Indian flowers, the goat black and white. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Crossed swords (Factory mark in underglaze blue, base edge) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Florence Augusta Beare in memory of Arthur Doveton Clarke |
| Object history | Modelled by J. J. Kändler, 1740 (companion to 'Tailor's wife on a goat', Eberlein, 1740, C.972-1919). After a larger version of 1737, without a base. (See Albiker, 1959, No. 264 for archives; Mould No. 107) No 18th century example of this is known. The goat was remodelled by Kändler, September 1742 (Albiker, 1935, p. 112) |
| Production | Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
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| Accession number | C.982-1919 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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