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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Table Fountain

1750-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Formed as Amphitrite seated on a shell-shaped chariot drawn by a dolphin


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours
Brief description
(IN FORM OF AMPHITRITE); Eastern France, 18
Physical description
Formed as Amphitrite seated on a shell-shaped chariot drawn by a dolphin
Gallery label
Gallery 128 Decant 2003 Possibly made in Eastern France, possibly at Holitsch in Hungary(07/06/2004)
Object history
Bought from the Aigoin Collection
Production
Acquired as Strasbourg, 1750-60; reattributed to Eastern France, late 18th century; reattributed to Holitsch, Hungary; a similar figure is known in faience fine, but with decoration suggestive of a 19th century date; another of this 18th century type was in the private collection of a major ceramic scholar in 1985, who, however, did not know how to attribute it; at that time the object was attributed to Les Islettes on the label, though this attribution does not appear in the register.
Jacques Bastian reattributed the fountain to Eastern France, but with no precise factory (May 2010).
Collection
Accession number
466-1870

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Record createdJune 15, 2004
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