Figure
ca. 1740 (made), 1740 (modelled)
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Figure group of a tailor's wife on a goat, of hard-paste porcelain. Seated side-saddle on a goat and nursing a swaddled baby. A kid suckles the goat. Roughly rectangular, flowered base. Stump support. Painted with enamel colours and gilt: the woman with a black, lace-trimmed cap, puce bodice with pattern of dots in circles in a deeper shade of puce, yellow skirt with coloured Indian flowers and white apron with iron-red rosettes. The baby's blanket blue with incised ornament. Leaves on base turquoise and yellow-green.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Figure group of a tailor's wife on a goat, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, modelled by J. F. Eberlein, 1740, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1740 |
| Physical description | Figure group of a tailor's wife on a goat, of hard-paste porcelain. Seated side-saddle on a goat and nursing a swaddled baby. A kid suckles the goat. Roughly rectangular, flowered base. Stump support. Painted with enamel colours and gilt: the woman with a black, lace-trimmed cap, puce bodice with pattern of dots in circles in a deeper shade of puce, yellow skirt with coloured Indian flowers and white apron with iron-red rosettes. The baby's blanket blue with incised ornament. Leaves on base turquoise and yellow-green. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Crossed swords (Factory mark in underglaze blue) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Florence Augusta Beare in memory of Arthur Doveton Clarke |
| Object history | Companion to 'Tailor on a goat', Kändler, 1740, C.982-1919. The nanny-goat was remodelled separately by Kändler, Oct. 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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| Bibliographic reference | Honey, W. B. Dresden china: an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain. London: A. & C. Black, 1934, p. 118, Note 226. |
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| Accession number | C.972-1919 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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