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Chelsea
(England 1744–1769)
- Title
- Girl holding a nest of chicks (Summer?)
- Year
- circa 1762-circa 1765
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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30.8 x 15.5 x 13.3 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.103
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The rosy-cheeked farm labourer has discovered a nest of chicks while harvesting corn. The figure would probably have represented summer in a set of the four seasons.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 59 (colour illus.), 71 (colour illus., detail). cat.no. 71
