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Title

Girl crying over spilt milk, model

circa 1770-1775

Artist

Höchst

Germany

1750 - 1796

An image of Girl crying over spilt milk, model by Höchst
Alternate image of Girl crying over spilt milk, model by Höchst Alternate image of Girl crying over spilt milk, model by Höchst

About

Modelled by Melchior. The emotive subject shows a French sensibility typical in Melchior’s work from the 1770s. The figure had a pair showing a boy with broken eggs, a signed biscuit version of which bears the date 1771.

Details

Date

circa 1770-1775

Media category

Ceramic

Materials used

hard-paste porcelain

Dimensions

11.9 x 6.2 x 4.8 cm

Credit

On loan from Kenneth Reed

Accession number

L2012.139

Reproduction requests

Artist information

Höchst

Works in the collection

8

Referenced in 1 publication

Bibliography

Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 80 (colour illus.), 81 (colour illus., detail). cat.no. 95