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FIGURES

FIGURES
 c. 1760

Medium
2 Figures, Shepherd & Shepherdess, "W", anchor & dagger marks
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Colin Templeton Collection. Gift of Mrs Colin Templeton, 1942
Gallery location
Not on display
 

About this work

The eighteenth-century Rococo employed pastoral imagery to conjure up an ideal world where a carefree humanity lived a life of simple pleasures in harmony with nature and with one another. Images of shepherds and shepherdesses evoked this realm of rustic bliss and were a common subject for porcelain sculptures produced in both England and on the Continent. The individually modelled applied floral decorations, known as bocage work, on this image of a shepherd musician by the English Bow factory are a characteristically English form of decoration and serve to heighten the pastoral associations of the image.

Artwork Details

Medium
2 Figures, Shepherd & Shepherdess, "W", anchor & dagger marks
Accession Number
397.1-2-D4
Department
International Decorative Arts
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Colin Templeton Collection. Gift of Mrs Colin Templeton, 1942
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Gallery location
Not on display

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