Bust of King-Stadtholder William III
Also titled Borstbeeld van koning-stadhouder Willem III
c. 1695 - c. 1700
- Medium
- earthenware, tin glaze, faience
- Classification
- bust
- Dimensions
- height 41.5 cm x width 24 cm x depth 9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of J.F. Loudon, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
After De Metaale Pot hired a French modeller, it succeeded in becoming the first pottery factory in the Netherlands to produce large sculptural earthenware objects. The modeller’s influence is visible in the way in which the drapery folds around the shoulders of this portrait bust are rendered.
