Kneeling Gentlemen presenting a Bird's Nest to a Lady: C.3-1975

Titles

Kneeling Gentlemen presenting a Bird's Nest to a Lady

Maker(s)

Description

Soft-paste porcelain figure group of a Kneeling Gentlemen presenting a Bird's Nest to a Lady, appearing greyish-white, presumed slip-cast, and glazed.

Soft-paste porcelain figure group of a Kneeling Gentlemen presenting a Bird's Nest to a Lady, appearing greyish-white, presumed slip-cast, and glazed. The model is heavy for its size. The unglazed underside has a large round ventilation hole under the lady. The rounded oblong base rises up on the left side into a low rock and tree stump, which has a circular hole at the top to take an attachment. The lady sits in front of the stump with her left leg forward, looking towards a young man. She places her left arm round his shoulders, and raises her right hand. The man kneels on his right knee and has his left foot forward. He places his hat with a nest containing three chicks in its crown onto her lap. His left arm is forward, and his right elbow rests on the stump. Both figures have small heads, and very slender limbs with small hands and feet. The girl's hair is long, and falls over her right shoulder in a thin coil. She wears a decolleté bodice laced together down the front, and a skirt. He has long hair tied in a queue with a bow at the nape of the neck.He wears a jacket and breeches. Both have shoes with bows on top. On the ground between them there is a recumbent spaniel. On top of the base there is a projecting flower on the left near the girl, and near to the right of the spaniel.

Notes

History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970.

Legal notes

Given by H.M. Treasury.

Measurements and weight

Height: 16.8 cm
Length: 17.2 cm

Relative size of this object

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Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.