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Shepherdess

Bow Porcelain Works
Kaendler, Johann Joachim (1706-1775 Started work at Meissen 1731.)

Standing female figure holding an open birdcage, a sheep seated at her feet to right, a naturalistically painted rock and fountain behind to left, all on a scroll base applied with polychrome flowers and foliage, and picked out in chocolate brown. She wears black shoes with red bows, a blue edged cream skirt painted with polychrome flowers, a white apron with scattered flowers in purple, blue and yellow, a puce bodice scattered with chocolate quatrefoils, white ruffles, a stomacher, a yellow scarf spotted in chocolate and a straw hat trimmed with blue. Square hole for candle holder at the back.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 30072

Creation/Production

Bow Porcelain Works
Kaendler, Johann Joachim

Acquisition

Bequest, 1898
Rhoddwyd gan / Bequeathed by James Pyke Thompson, 1898

Measurements

Height (cm): 23.2
Length (cm): 12
Width (cm): 9
Height (in): 9
Length (in): 4
Width (in): 3

Techniques

press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
enamels
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

soft-paste porcelain

Location

In store

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