Collection
Bow
(England 1744–1776)
- Title
- Girl fish seller
- Year
- circa 1755-1760
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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15.1 x 8.6 x 8.0 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.85
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
This figure and the boy fish seller (L2012.86) are based on Meissen figures modelled by Kändler and/or Eberlein c1748. In Bow examples the boy sometimes has a hat. Both the Bow figures have a square hole at the back probably intended to hold metal branches bearing porcelain flowers and/or candle sconces.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection 2012, Sydney, 2012, 48 (colour illus.). cat.no. 51
