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milking cow figure polychrome 3d view

OBJECT

•D1855. Pair of Polychrome Milking Groups

Delft, circa 1760

Each marked LPK in blue for De Porceleyne Lampetkan (The Porcelain Ewer) factory

Modeled affronté, each cow with a blue spotted white hide, eyes, muzzle and forelock, manganese ears and hooves and yellow horns, wearing garlands of iron-red, yellow and manganese flowers and green leaves around its neck and back, standing foursquare and being milked by a youth wearing a green coat and manganese breeches and hat, each seated with a pail between his feet at the semicircular front of the chamfered rectangular base, its caned sides marbleized in iron-red and yellow, and its green top molded with frogs and leaves.

Lengths: both 21.4 cm. (8.4 in.)

Provenance: The H.C. Bout Collection, Belgium

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