The Sleeper Crowned

Original Language TitleDer bekränzte Schläfer

Alternate TitleSlumbering Shepherd

Manufacturer Höchst Ceramics Manufactory (German, founded 1746)

Modeler Johann Peter Melchior (German, 1742 - 1825)

Datebefore 1770

MediumHard-paste porcelain

DimensionsOverall: 7 × 9 1/2 inches (17.78 × 24.13 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. E. B. Berkowitz

Object number70-18/8

Markingson bottom: blue wheel mark

On View

Not on view

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Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

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DescriptionSquare stand painted to resemble marble in background on which is "marble" urn with green laurel around it. Girl and boy at base of stand. Boy lying on ground with head against stand; left arm bent with hand against head; right arm outstretched on grass. Black and white dog looking over boy's right shoulder. Girl to boy's left. Her right arm stretched over boy's head; kneeling on right knee; left hand on ground, left foot stretched behind her. Both dressed in colorful garments each with a hat. Yellow bowl in foreground with green and a purple object in c. On shaped green base. Modeled by Johann Peter Melchior (act. 1767-1779).Provenance

Provenance

Caroline Newman Newburger Berkowitz (1899–1997), Kansas City, MO, by June 25, 1970 [1];

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1970 [2].

NOTES:

[1] Caroline Berkowitz married Eugene Bertram Berkowitz (1889-1966) in 1922, the year after graduating from Smith College, establishing a likely beginning date for the beginning of her collecting interests. Laura R. Hockaday, “Berkowitz matriarch believes in putting family first,” Kansas City Star (January 12, 1992): H4.

[2] Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Curatorial Files.

Published References

Siegfried Ducret, German Porcelain and Faience (New York: Universe Books, 1962): no. 62, pp. 172-173 (ill.)

K.H. Esser and Horst Reber, Höchster Fayencen und Porzellane, exh. cat. (Mainz, Germany: Altertumsmuseum und Gemäldegalerie der Stadt Mainz, 1964): no. 170, p. 108 (ill.)

Horst Reber, Höchster Porzellan aus drei Jahrhunderten, exh. cat. (Hohenberg an der Eger, Germany: Museum der Deutschen Porzellanindustrie, 1988): p. 108 (ill.)

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