Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Female Gardener or Gardener's Wife
Maker(s)
Factory:
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Eberlein, Johann Friedrich
Entities
Categories
Description
Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, bluish-green, yellow, flesh pink, pink, red, grey, and dark-brown enamels. She stands against a white stump on a flat white circular base encrusted with coloured flowers and foliage. With her left hand she holds her apron, enclosing two green marrows and three beetroot. In her right she holds a parsnip. She wears a peculiar white circular straw-hat, with an oriental looking overhang to the brim, fastened under her chin with a pink ribbon. Her bodice is bluish-green with gold buttons, and she also wears a white chemise with sleeves rolled up and fastened at the neck with a yellow string. She also wears a white apron and white skirt. Her feet are bare, and her hair is short and dark.
Notes
History note: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, for £35 on February 11, 1934, by Cecil, 2nd Lord Fisher; Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone
Legal notes
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 17.1 cm
Place(s) associated
-
Meissen
⪼ Saxony
⪼ Germany
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1954-01-14)
by
Fisher, Lord and Lady
Dating
Circa
1746
-
1750
Note
Modelled by Eberlein in 1746
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
Materials used in production
Hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Modelling
Glazing (coating)
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.11-1954
Primary reference Number: 140100
Old object number: 393
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 21 November 2023
Last processed: Tuesday 19 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
