Baby in a Basket
Factory: Imperial Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt
Hard-paste porcelain painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red and pale purple enamels, and gilt; the base unglazed. The baby lies in an elongated oval basket bound along the sides with gold threads, and with a loop handle at each end bound with gold-edged green ribbon tied in bows at their junction with the sides. The baby wears a red yellow and gold cap, and a long white gown, and holds a little puce-spotted cloth comforter in its left hand. A tiny bunch of flowers is tucked into a pocket on its right breast. It lies on a floral pillow and a white cloth, and is held into the basket by a length of puce-striped cloth which passes under the basket and is tied on the right side in a bow.
Given by Louis C.G. Clarke
Height: 3.5 cm
Width: 11.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1939) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red and pale purple) gold
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, flesh, puce, red and pale purple enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: shield with two cross bars
Accession number: EC.7-1939
Primary reference Number: 38489
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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