Title
The delights of childhood (Les delices d'enfance), model
circa 1750
Artist
-
Details
- Date
- circa 1750
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- 15.5 x 10.5 x 7.0 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2012.69
- Copyright
- Artist information
-
Meissen
Works in the collection
- Share
-
-
About
The group is based on a print of 1742 entitled ‘Les délices de l’enfance’ by J-J Balechou after François Boucher. A Chinese lady holds in her right hand a large kettle while with her left she pours a beverage into a cup held up by a Chinese boy. The print is one of a series which also provided further models for Meissen chinoiserie groups. The attribution of the model is uncertain, but it seems most probably to be by Reinicke.
-
Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
-
Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
-
Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 11 (colour illus., detail), 29 (colour illus.). cat.no. 33
-
