figure of a gardener

Meissen

Summary

Public: Figure of a gardener, hard paste porcelain, boy carrying a watering can decorated in enamel colours. Private: Figure of a gardener, hard paste porcelain. Modelled as a bare-footed boy in breeches and shirt sleeves, carrying a watering can, on shaped base with a treestump, decorated with applied flowers and leaves, the underside flat and unglazed. Painted in iron red, mauve, brown, green, blue, yellow and grey enamel colours. His neck, part of his left hand and the can handle repaired.