Greenland Girl: C.125-2010

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Titles

Greenland Girl

Maker(s)

Factory: Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory
Modeller: Hansen, Carl Martin

Entities

Figure

Description

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.

Legal notes

Given by Dame Anne Warburton

Measurements and weight

Depth: 7 cm
Height: 14.4 cm
Width: 8.5 cm

Place(s) associated

Copenhagen ⪼ Denmark

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2010-06-07) by Warburton, Anne, Dame

Dating

1930s
20th Century, second quarter#
Production date: circa AD 1930

Note

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.

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, greyish-blue, green, yellow, tanned flesh, red, purple, brown, grey, and black)

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, greyish-blue, green, yellow, tanned flesh, red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels
Glazing