Japanese Lady with Parasol: EC.33-1946

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Titles

Japanese Lady with Parasol

Maker(s)

Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Kändler, Johann Joachim

Entities

Figure

Description

Hard-paste porcelain, painte in enamels, and gilded

Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pale mauve, red, pale brown, and grey enamels, and lightly gilded. The unglazed base has a small circular ventilation hole to left of centre. The approximately circular base has a frilled edge on the viewer's left, and on the right, overlapping shells, and a scroll picked out in gold. The lady steps forward on her left foot, and has her left arm advanced to support the stick of her green parasol. Her pale grey hair is drawn up into a top-knot, and she has a blue head band at the front of her head. She wears a high-necked, long-sleeved pale mauve tunic with yellow edges, a green belt, and a long white skirt scattered with sprays of polychrome flowers and foliage. The tip of the yellow shoe on her right foot is just visible below the hem of her skirt.

Legal notes

Dr F.R. Cowper-Reed Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 6.6 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.

Place(s) associated

Meissen ⪼ Saxony ⪼ Germany

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Cowper-Reed, F.R., Dr

Dating

3rd quarter 18th Century
Circa 1755 CE - 1760 CE

School or Style

Rococo

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pale mauve, red, pale brown, and grey)
Visible Surfaces composed of glaze ( clear)
Deocration composed of gold

Materials used in production

Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh-pink, pale mauve, red, pale brown, and grey enamels, and lightly gilded. The unglazed base has a small circular ventilation hole to left of centre.