Peasant Woman selling Apples: C.23-1954

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Titles

Peasant Woman selling Apples

Maker(s)

Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Kändler, Johann Joachim

Entities

Figure

Description

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.

Notes

History note: Willy Lissauer, Berlin, from whom purchased 28 March 1933 for £25 by the 2nd Lord Fisher of Kilverstone

Legal notes

Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 11 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

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.

Place(s) associated

Meissen ⪼ Saxony ⪼ Germany

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady

Dating

Mid 18th Century
Circa 1744 CE - 1750 CE

School or Style

Baroque

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

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

Materials used in production

Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing
Press-moulding

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: scarcely discernable

Text: crossed swords
Location: Underneath base
Method of creation: Underglaze blue
Type: Factory mark

References and bibliographic entries

Related exhibitions

Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.23-1954
Primary reference Number: 140181
Old object number: 371
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 6 September 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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