Seated Woman
Factory: Hewelcke Porcelain Factory
Glazed pale grey hard-paste porcelain
Pale grey hard-paste porcelain, moulded, hand-modelled and glazed. A woman wearing a dress with a decolleté neckline, stomacher, and skirt with three flounces, is seated on an elaborately scrolled rococo base with a leafy tree trunk and a branch of flowers behind her. She looks down towards her left hand which holds the remains of a book (?). Her right hand is raised
History note: Puttick and Simpson, 8 October 1920, lot 125; purchased for £1.11.6 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1761
CE
-
1763
CE
The factory was founded by Nathaniel Friedrich Hewelcke and his wife Maria Doroten emigrés from Dresden as a result of the Prussian occupation. Their factory was initially at Udine and then moved to Venice.
Press-moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded and glazed
Glazing
Accession number: C.3211-1928
Primary reference Number: 140261
Old object number: 3808
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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