Apple Wife
Factory:
Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Bustelli, Franz Anton
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in lime green, yellow, pale red, purple, pale brown, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The closed underside is unglazed and has a small round ventilation hole in the middle. The flat base is oval with asymmetrically placed shallow scrolls at the front and back. The young apple wife sits on a brown stool with her right leg advanced, and rests her right forearm on a wooden barrel filled with red and yellow apples. She turns her head to her left and holds out an apple in her left hand. She wears a green hat with a purple ribbon round the crown, and red zig-zags under the brim; a pale purple neckerchief, a white chemise with elbow-length sleeves, a red bodice, green skirt; white apron scattered with purple flowerheads, and black shoes. In front of the barrel there is a small pale brown cylindrical measure bearing an impressed rautenschild.
History note: Purchased from Mr George Stoner on 18 June 1917 for £100 with the male figure pf a Cheesemonger by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher: taken by Mrs Dickson on his death in accordance with his will and in October 1932 returned by her to the Museum
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1928) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
This figure was one of several street vendors modelled by Bustelli at Neudeck in 1755, and may have been made at Neudeck between 1755-60 or after 1761 when the factory moved to Nymphenburg
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( lime green, yellow, pale red, purple, pale brown, brown, and black)
gold
Visible Area
composed of
glaze
Base
Width 12.2 cm
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded in parts, glazed, and painted in lime green, yellow, pale red, purple, pale brown, brown, and black enamels, and gilded round the edge of the base
Accession number: C.3179A-1928
Primary reference Number: 140237
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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