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FIGURINE OF A HUNTMAN'S LADY

Creator(s):

On view in: Marjorie Post's Bedroom Hall


About this object

The statuette represents a woman as a hunter. She is supporting a brown and white gun with her right hand and holding a brown quail on her left hand. She is wearing a round hat with a rust brim and purple and white flowers, a pale yellow dotted jacket and over skirt lined in mauve pink, over a white underskirt with purple flowers. She stands on an irregular base with green grass in the neoclassical style. She is supported by a green tree stump and a leafy branch. She wears a black shoulder strap across her outift with a brown and white pouch on her right rear hip.

Object name:
FIGURINE OF A HUNTMAN'S LADY
Made from:
Porcelain
Made in:
Derby, England
Date made:
1772-1795
Size:
13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
26.84
Class:
CERAMICS
Signature marks:
MARK underneath: N 50 (impress); 13 in overglaze red
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973