Collection
Höchst
(Germany 1750–1796)
- Title
- Resting boy with helmet, model
- Year
- circa 1770
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
12.5 x 6.3 x 7.7 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.137
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
Possibly modelled by Melchior. Since the boy has a helmet he is perhaps intended for the god of war, Mars. Nevertheless an example of the figure is recorded which has a companion of a girl washing herself.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection 2012, Sydney, 2012, 79 (colour illus.). cat.no. 92
