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DiaporamaShepherdess
1760
7.0 x 3.0 cm
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (? – ?)
Discover Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory: Pioneering 18th-century British ceramics. Explore soft-paste porcelain, elegant designs & a legacy shaping art history.
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art (Toronto, Canada)
Toronto's Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art offers an unparalleled journey through millennia of clay artistry with its world-class collection of porcelain and maiolica, inviting you to explore the beauty of earth and fire.
A Chelsea scent bottle modelled with a shepherdess wearing a flowered dress with blue and green sleeves. She is seated before a pedestal on which rests a gourd-shaped vase, with applied flowers. She holds a lamb with its forelegs resting on her knee, with another seated beside her. The hollow base is gilt with two doves in flight with a green dentil border, and gilt metal mounts and a squirrel stopper.
About this artwork
- Title: Shepherdess
- Artist: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
- Year: 1760
- Original dimensions: 7.0 x 3.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
- Color palette: Neutrals
- Color intensity: Monochromatic
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