Pedlar Woman
Factory: Imperial Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain figure of a pedlar woman painted in enamels
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in pale green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, dark pink, pale purple, brown, and black enamels. The middle of the underside is slightly concave and glazed and the outer edge unglazed. There is a small ventilation hole on each side of her legs under her skirt.
The undecorated shallow base is of a rounded, narrow triangular form and rises up at the back to support the figure. The pedlar woman stands on her right leg with her left advanced, raising her head and looking towards her left. She holds up her apron in both hands. She has a delicately tinted features, and greyish-brown hair held back by a black ribbon clasp. She wears a purple scarf round her throat, a white blouse with elbow-length sleeves, a yellow bodice with pale purple stripes, a pale green apron, a pink skirt with dark pink hem and border, and black shoes. On her apron she holds out a pale brown tray
History note: Uncertain before donor
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 16 cm
Width: 7.5 cm
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.
Method of acquisition: Given (1950-09) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
3rd quarter 18th Century
Circa
1760
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( pale green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, dark pink, pale purple, brown, and black)
Depth
Visible Surface
clear, except for edge of base
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in pale green, yellow, flesh-pink, pink, dark pink, pale purple, brown, and black enamels. The middle of the underside is slightly concave and glazed and the outer edge unglazed.
Inscription present: a shield
Accession number: C.62-1950
Primary reference Number: 140339
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Pedlar Woman" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140339 Accessed: 2023-02-05 15:45:26
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: 2060
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Accession Number: P.242-1937
Accession Number: OC.87-1938
£30.00
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