The Nurse, model ca. 1607–8, French, Fontainebleau or Avon, Lead-glazed earthenware, Height: 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, This earthenware statuette of a wet nurse swaddling a large baby was popular throughout the seventeenth century and was copied in Chelsea porcelain in the eighteenth century. The figurine was probably created from a model by Guillaume Dupré, completed around 1608, and is evocative of the work of prolific ceramist Bernard Palissy
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Nurse, model ca, 1607–8, French, Fontainebleau, Avon, Lead-glazed earthenware, Height, 9 3/4, 24.8 cm, Ceramics-Pottery, earthenware, statuette, wet nurse, swaddling, large baby, popular, seventeenth century, copied, Chelsea porcelain, eighteenth, figurine, created, model, Guillaume Dupré, completed, 1608, evocative, work, prolific ceramist, Bernard, Palissy
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