Two boys gathering flowers
Figure Group
ca. 1765 (made)
ca. 1765 (made)
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Figure group of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels of two boys gathering flowers. One stands beside a tree trunk picking flowers, and the other is kneeling placing flowers in a basket. Base decorated with flowers.
Object details
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| Title | Two boys gathering flowers (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Figure group of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels of two boys gathering flowers, made at Tournai porcelain factory, Tournai, ca. 1765. |
| Physical description | Figure group of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels of two boys gathering flowers. One stands beside a tree trunk picking flowers, and the other is kneeling placing flowers in a basket. Base decorated with flowers. |
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| Credit line | Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq. |
| Production | Acquired as 'Italian (probably Naples)'; reattributed to Tournai ca. 1765 by comparison with examples with similar colouring illustrated in E. J. Soil de Moriamé, Les Porcelaines de Tournay, 1910, and a figure exhibited at the Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs loan exhibition of 1929, no. 945. |
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| Accession number | C.1139-1924 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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