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Peasant Woman selling Apples
Meissen Porcelain Factory
(Factory)
Kändler, Johann Joachim
(Modeller)
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in yellow, red, pale pinkish-brown, brown, greyish-buff, and black enamels. The unglazed underside has a circular ventilation hole near the back. The woman stands with her feet slightly apart on a low roughly square white corrugated base.Over her left arm she carries a tall pale brown wicker basket full of yellow apples tinged with red, and with her right hand she proffers a single apple. Her head is wrapped a white shawl, which hangs half way down her back, and is knotted under her chin. Her face is haggard with strongly delineated black eyebrows, and red lips. She wears a white blouse with full elbow-length sleeves; a red bodice with a black front; a greyish-buff skirt bunched up around her buttocks by means of a black belt, from which dangle a black key and a brown sheath, hanging on a red strap; a white apron; white stockings; and brown shoes with red bows.
History note: Willy Lissauer, Berlin, from whom purchased 28 March 1933 for £25 by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 11 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1954-01-14)
by
Fisher, Lord and Lady
Mid 18th Century
Circa
1744
CE
-
1750
1750
CE
Decoration:
composed of
enamels
( yellow, red, pale pinkish-brown, brown, greyish-buff, and black)
Whole Except Base:
composed of
glaze
Base:
Width 6.2 cm
Inscription present: scarcely discernable
Accession number: C.23-1954
Primary reference Number: 140181
Old object number: 371
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.13-1954
Accession Number: 34
Accession Number: 72
Accession Number: C.3-1954
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