Figure group

Description

Porcelain group decorated in colours and gilt with the Wife of the Tailor of the Saxon Court mounted on a goat with a child at her breast: German, Saxony, Meissen, c. 1745 - 50, variant of an earlier group modelled by J.F. Eberlein

Museum reference

A.1953.468

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Figure group

Production information

Meissen factory
Meissen, Saxony, Germany, Western Europe
Eberlein, Johann Friedrich, Modeller

Date

c. 1745 - 1750

Materials

Porcelain

Physical description

Porcelain; decorated in colours and gilt

Associations

von Bruhl, Heinrich, Count, 1700 - 1763
Haddington collection (NMS)

Exhibitions

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland