Figure
ca. 1755 (made)
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Figure of a boy with a bird in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. He wears a white coat, flowered with colours, and his sleeves are rolled up. Pink trousers turned up above the knee. He stands with hands outstretched in front of him, offering birds. Brown vintager's basket behind him full of bunches of grapes leaning against a stove.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Figure of a boy with a bird in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, modelled by E.H. Reichard, Wegely's porcelain factory, Berlin, ca. 1755. |
| Physical description | Figure of a boy with a bird in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. He wears a white coat, flowered with colours, and his sleeves are rolled up. Pink trousers turned up above the knee. He stands with hands outstretched in front of him, offering birds. Brown vintager's basket behind him full of bunches of grapes leaning against a stove. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '1 66 16 W' (set vertically with strokes between, impressed) |
| Credit line | Purchased with funds from the Captain H.B. Murray Bequest |
| Object history | Copying Sevres after 'Le Porteur d'oiseaux ou Corydon on la protestation', after Boucher. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Christina H. Nelson with Letitia Roberts. The Warda Stevens Stout Collection, A History of Eighteenth-Century German Porcelain. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Hudson Hills Press, Easthampton and New York, 2013. Illustrated Berlin section, fig. 1, 198p. |
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| Accession number | C.471-1927 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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