The Cherry Harvest or Cherry Pickers
Factory:
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Kändler, Johann Joachim
Boucher, François
(After)
Hard-paste porcelain group painted in polychrome enamels
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green yellow, flesh pink, pale mauve, lilac, red, reddish-brown, grey and black enamels, and gilt. The concave underside has an open-ended oval support around the central ventilation hole, and another ventilation hole outside the support. The oval low mound base has gold rococo scrolls and frills round its edge, and in the centre, a tall tree with six branches bearing applied leaves and cherries. The spaces between the figures are strewn with applied flowers and leaves. A ladder is leaning up against the back of the tree, and a boy astride one branch is picking cherries. He wears a black hat, brown jacket with gold buttons and yellow cuffs, and lilac breeches. A small boy eating a cherry is seated on the ground beside the ladder. He wears a yellow jacket, white shirt, and mauve breeches, and leans on a mauve hat containing three cherries, which is perched on a low tree stump beside him. A gentleman sits on a low stump on the left of the front of the tree, holding up a cherry to drop into the apron of a lady standing beside him. A basket full of cherries lies on the ground between them. The man wears a pale mauve coat edged with gold, a flowered waistcoat, and lilac breeches, with white stockings and black shoes with gold buckles. A black tricorn hat is under his right arm. His companion has a double ruffle round her neck, a lilac sack dress over a floral petticoat, and white shoes with red ties.
Dr F.R. Cowper Reed Bequest
Height: 27.7 cm
Width: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1946) by Cowper-Reed, F.R., Dr
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1765
CE
-
1766
CE
One of J.J. Kaendler's latest models of January 1765. The subject was probably inspired by a print after La cueillette des cerises, after a sketch by François Boucher. A donkey, has been omitted and a gentleman has been substituted for a seated girl on the left
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green yellow, flesh pink, pale mauve, lilac, red, reddith-brown, grey and lack enamels)
gold
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
Base
Width 14 cm
Press-moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, green yellow, flesh pink, pale mauve, lilac, red, reddith-brown, grey and lack enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed and has a central support formed by a vertical strip curved into an open-ended oval shape around the central ventilation hole, and another smaller ventilation hole outside the support.
Accession number: EC.34-1946
Primary reference Number: 140431
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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