Title
Girl holding a nest of chicks (Summer?)
circa 1762-circa 1765
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1762-circa 1765
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- 30.8 x 15.5 x 13.3 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2012.103
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Chelsea
Works in the collection
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 59 (colour illus.), 71 (colour illus., detail). cat.no. 71
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