Zurich Porcelain Manufactory
(Switzerland 1763–1791)
- Title
- Drink seller
- Year
- circa 1770
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
9.7 x 4.2 x 4.6 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.199
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
A street vendor has on his back a large metal canister with a pipe which runs round to his front from which he can fill a glass. The figure probably belongs with the series of street vendors modelled by Joseph Nees at Zurich after his move from Ludwigsburg (compare L2012.197, L2012.196).
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 113 (colour illus.). cat.no. 151
