Greenland Girl
Factory:
Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory
Modeller:
Hansen, Carl Martin
Hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels
Hard-paste porcelain, slip cast, and painted overglaze in blue, greyish-blue, green, yellow, tanned flesh, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels. The underside has a recessed rounded square in the centre with a very small ventilation hole in the back viewer's right corner. The girl kneels, sitting back on her heels, and holds to her chest in each hand a posy of mixed flowers. Her black hair is tied up in a small knot on the top of her head with a red band. She wears a red tunic with a high brown neck and cuffs, and shawl collar with a multi-coloured geometrical pattern, and a greyish blue lower edge with two rectangular red-edged flaps at the front; brown knee breeches, and red boots with a multi-colour stripe up their fronts.
Given by Dame Anne Warburton
Depth: 7 cm
Height: 14.4 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2010-06-07) by Warburton, Anne, Dame
1930s
20th Century, second quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1930
The girl is wearing the nation costume of Greenland which has a large embroidered beadwork collar around the shoulders. It was one of a series of figures in national costume modelled by Hansen between 1906 and 1925.
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, greyish-blue, green, yellow, tanned flesh, red, purple, brown, grey, and black)
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, greyish-blue, green, yellow, tanned flesh, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels
Glazing
Inscription present: oval dark brown label with gold edge; the two u s in Buus have a dash over each
Accession number: C.125-2010
Primary reference Number: 177310
Entry form: 1038
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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