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Shepherdess
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
Date: 1753-1755 –
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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