Capodimonte
(Italy 1743–1759)
- Title
- A fisherman and his companion
- Year
- circa 1750
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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20.0 x 17.2 x 10.7 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2010.202
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
The model is by Giuseppe Gricci. Though the source for this group has not been identified, Gricci’s figures have been shown in other cases to derive from prints after such artists as Pietro Longhi, Gian Domenico Ferretti and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 42, 43 (colour illus.). cat.no. 45
