Birdcatcher's Wife
Factory:
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Reinicke, Peter
Hard-paste porcelain painted in turqjoise, green, yellow, flesh-pink, red, purple, pale brown and black enamels. She stands against a white stump, on a low base decorated with applied large coloured flowers and foliage. Suspended by two plaited bands, which pass over her shoulders, she carries on her back a white pannier in which rests a brown bird cage containing two white birds. With her left hand she holds in front of her another similar cage, also containing two birds. She wears a close fitting pointed black bonnet, fastened under her chin with a black bow, a white shirt, a light green bodice with a white front laced with pink, a red petticoat, a white apron, white stockings, and black shoes. Round her buttocks she wears a broad black strap.
History note: Bought from Willy Lissauer, Berlin, on 5 April 1933, for £40 by Cecil, 2nd Baron Fisher (1868-1955); Lord and Lady Fisher of Kilverstone
Given by Lord and Lady Fisher through the National Art Collections Fund
Height: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1954-01-14) by Fisher, Lord and Lady
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1745
CE
-
1750
CE
Modelled by Peter Reinicke in 1744 as a companion to J.J. Kaendler's Bird-catcher. Meissen model 554.
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
( clear)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
Accession number: C.5-1954
Primary reference Number: 140316
Old object number: 370
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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