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Mourning over the Dead Lamb
Factory:
Höchst Porcelain Manufactory
Modeller:
Melchior, Johann Peter
Hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels and gilt. A kneeling youth comforts a seated shepherdess who is weeping over a dead sheep.
Hard-paste porcelain press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, bluish-green, pale yellow, pink, red, pale brown, dark brown, greyish-brown, and black enamels, and lightly gilt. The underside is open and glazed, On the viewer's left there is a rectangular prop, and part of another beside it. The base is approximately oval with a wavy edge. There are brown rocks round the edge, and in the middle of the back, a heap of rocks forming a seat. The top is painted with bluish-green grass. The shepherdess sits on the rock seat holding her handkerchief to her eyes with her left hand and resting hr right on the shoulders of a youth who kneels beside her. He has his left hand round her waist and holds his right to his chest. His bag and hulot lie on the grass in front of him. The dead sheep lies across the right end of the base . The bare-footed girl has pale brown hair, dressed in a double chignon at the back of her head. She wears a full-sleeved chemise, a white bodice with a red edge, gold seams, and two blue double bows on the shoulders, neckline and waist. The boy has a white shirt and neckcloth, a pink jacket with gold edging, pale yellow breeches and black shoes. His bag is brown with two red bows and there is another at the top of his houlot. Beside the sheep's head there are two red berries and four leaves.
History note: Sir Hercules Read (1857-1929); sold Sotheby's, 6 November 1928, Catalogue of the Varied and Extensive Collection of Works of Art, The Property of Sir Hercules Read, 6, Palace Gardens Terrace, W.8, second day, lot 179; purchased by Hunt for £26 on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Circa
1775
CE
-
1778
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, bluish-green, pale yellow, pink, red, pale brown, dark brown, greyish-brown, and black)
Over Girl's Head
Height 16.5 cm
Base
Width 17.8 cm
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Inscription present: a wheel
Accession number: C.3178-1928
Primary reference Number: 74452
Old object number: 5116
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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