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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Figure

ca. 1745 (made), ca. 1741 (modelled)
Artist/Maker
Meissen Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Kändler, Johann Joachim (modeller)
Place of origin
Meissen (made)

Figure of a parrot, one of a pair, looking back over its shoulder, painted predominantly in green with purple breast and blue and yellow wings and tail. The base decorated with palmette serrated-edged leaves and a flower.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Figures & Decorative Ceramics
Object type
Figure
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Hard Paste Porcelain
Painted
Brief description
Figure of a parrot, one of a pair, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamel colours, modelled by J. J. Kändler, ca. 1741, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1745
Physical description
Figure of a parrot, one of a pair, looking back over its shoulder, painted predominantly in green with purple breast and blue and yellow wings and tail. The base decorated with palmette serrated-edged leaves and a flower.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.3cm
  • Tail to breast width: 12.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '1530' (Painted in green enamel)
  • Crossed swords (Factory mark, in underglaze blue)
Credit line
Given by Mrs O. J. Finney in memory of Oswald James Finney
Object history
One of a pair of parakeets, C.4&A-1987.
Subject depicted
Parrots
Bibliographic references
  • Charleston, R. J., ed. Anthony Blunt "Meissen and other European porcelain" in The James A. De Rothschild Fribourg, Office du Livre; London, National Trust, 1971, p. 152.
  • Hackenbroch, Yvonne. Meissen and other continental porcelain, faience and enamel in the Irwin Untermyer collection. Cambridge, Published for the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harvard University Press, 1956, Fig. 10, Pl. 5.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.4A-1984

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Record createdNovember 11, 2009
Record URL
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