Shepherd playing a Lute: C.6-1950

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Titles

Shepherd playing a Lute

Maker(s)

Factory: Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Bustelli, Franz Anton

Entities

Figure

Description

Glazed hard-paste porcelain

Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and glazed except for the underside, which has a large circular ventilation hole. The base is roughly rectangular with a wavy edge, and rises up into a sloping mossy bank with a low tree stump on the viewer's right. A flower surrounded by eight leaves is applied to the ground in front of the stump. The elegant shepherd reclines on the bank, leaning his right elbow on the stump, and holding the peg end of the lute in his left hand and plucking its strings with his right. His head is turned sharply to the viewer's left, his right leg is extended behind him, and his right foot projects over the left front of the base. He wears a tricorne hat, a buttoned up coat, breeches with bows at the knees, and shoes tied on top.

Notes

History note: H.E. Backer, London

Legal notes

Purchased with the Dr F.R. Cowper Reed Bequest Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 11.7 cm
Length: 14.9 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.