IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 30470 accession number: M.7-1996 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Vegetable Woman. Wax, coloured flesh pink, dark pink, pale mauve, pale blue, pale yellow, green and brown. The woman is shown three-quarter length, holding up in front of her the ends of her pinafore, in which is a cabbage, an onion (?) and originally other vegetables. Her head is turned to the viewer's left. She wears a straw hat, held on by a pink ribbon to which two roses are attached; a pale yellow bodice and pale mauve skirt, with a pale blue apron. The model rests on a D-shaped base covered in dark green ribbed silk and the background is buff ribbed silk. In gilt-metal rococo scrolled frame with three scroll feet, glass half dome, and hinged door at the back. A pair with M.8-1996. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 31st July 1958, lot 135 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Edward Joseph Pyke STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30470 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- onion cabbage onion cabbage CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1775 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Hardy, Bernhard Caspar CITATIONS -------- Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers ---