Woman holding a Basket of Fruit
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a black woman holding a Basket of Fruit, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted underglaze in blue, and over slightly greenish lead-glaze in turquoise, green, yellow, orange, pale and dark puce, mauve, purple, and black enamels, and gilt. The square base has a scrolled edge and four feet decorated with rocaille ornament. The concave underside is glazed and has a ventilation hole under the figure. On top, at the back, is a rectangular hole to take an attachment. The figure stands between two stumps, that on the viewer's right decorated with three flowers and leaves, and that on the left with two flowers, two buds, and leaves. There are two applied flowers, each with three leaves on the front of the base. She stands on her right foot with her left relaxed behind. Her head is turned to her right, and she holds a basket of fruit against her body with her left hand, and holds out a fruit in her right hand. She wears Turkish costume comprising a tall pale mauve headdress with a yellow lining and gold edging, a white open coat strewn with sprigs of purple chrysanthemum flowers and foliage, with a yellow lining, and green sleeves striped in gold, and a dark blue petticoat decorated with vertical gold zigzag lines and dots alternating with gold stripes. Around her waist is a yellow and mauve striped sash. Her shoes are dark puce.
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas
Height: 18.2 cm
Length: 12.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century, second half#
George II or George III
Circa
1760
-
1770
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, pale and dark puce, mauve, purple, and black)
lead-glaze
( presumed lead)
gold
Details
presumed phosphatic Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, hand-modelled, and painted underglaze in blue, and over slightly greenish lead-glaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: EC.13-1938
Primary reference Number: 42058
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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