A Pair of Polychrome Milking Groups
The cow is modelled affronté. Each cow with a manganese spotted hide, forelock, eyes, ears, muzzle and hooves. An iron - red tong. Yellow horns and udder. She is wearing a garland of wonderfull flowers around her neck and back. One is milked by a lad wearing a manganese hat and shoes, a green jacket and yellow shorts. The other cow is milked by a maid wearing a yellow hat, and skirt dotted with iron - red flowers and a green jacket. Both are seated before a yellow-striped pail amidst leaves and grasses and a blue frog on a rectangular green base with marbleized sides.
- Origin
- Delft, The Netherlands
- Period
- Around 1760
- Material
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Delft Earthenware
- Reference
- 112-557
- Sizes
- 18 x 22 x 11 cm