Flower-girl, perhaps representing Spring
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain, containing bone ash, flower girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain, containing bone ash, flower girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels. The unglazed underside of the roughly oval base has a glazed ventilation hole at the back. The figure is supported by a tree stump which has a square hole to take an attachment. The girl stands barefooted with her right foot slightly forward, and her head turned to her left. She holds a basket of flowers in her left hand in front of her and with her right holds up her apron, also filled with flowers. She has brown hair on which is a black ribbon at the back and a small bunch of flowers at the front. She wears a black ribbon with a four-petalled black flower round her neck, a blue bodice with white sleeves and blue bows at the elbows. The back of her skirt is yellow with a black border round the hem, and the front is white strewn with puce flowers, over which she has a white apron. The top of the base is decorated with two applied flowers, each with three leaves, and slight puce scrolls round the front edge.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 14.8 cm
Width: 8.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
This figure was modelled after a Meissen flower girl by J.J. Kaendler and Peter Reinicke
Decoration composed of enamels
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.6-1918
Primary reference Number: 41462
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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