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Shepherdess with recorder
Made at: Meissen Manufactory (Germany)
German
about 1760
Object Place: Europe, Germany
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
Dimensions
24.6 cm (9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2065
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionFigure of a young girl holding a wind instrument to her mouth, wearing a short purple coat over a yellow dress bordered by flowers, bag over left shoulder, mauve bows on shoes, lamb at right on rococo base together with flowers in relief. Seven places of leaf damage on trunk; a branch missing from base of trunk, two leaves chipped on base.
ProvenanceForsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA.