Zurich Porcelain Manufactory
(Switzerland 1763–1791)
- Title
- Fisherfolk
- Year
- circa 1773
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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15.4 x 10.8 x 9.7 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.200
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The girl looks on dreamily as the boy removes a hook (with its porcelain line still attached) from the mouth of a trout. The group was probably modelled by Johann Jakob Wilhelm Spengler. This is the same man as the J Spängler who was taken on as a figure modeller at the Derby factory in 1790, but who turned out to be a troublesome employee, running up debts, absconding to London and ending up in prison.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 113 (colour illus.). cat.no. 152
