Figure
ca. 1750 (made)
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Figure of a woman, perhaps a snuffer, salt-glazed stoneware. Highly conventionalised, the head a sphere with applied ears, nose and headdress, the arms formed like handles clasping in front of a dove; wide bell-shaped skirt; the eyes, arms and corsage touched with brown clay.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Salt-glazed stoneware |
| Brief description | Figure of a woman, perhaps a snuffer, salt-glazed stoneware, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1750 |
| Physical description | Figure of a woman, perhaps a snuffer, salt-glazed stoneware. Highly conventionalised, the head a sphere with applied ears, nose and headdress, the arms formed like handles clasping in front of a dove; wide bell-shaped skirt; the eyes, arms and corsage touched with brown clay. |
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| Gallery label | Figure of a Woman, perhaps a snuffer
Made in Staffordshire, about 1750
Salt-glazed stoneware
C.55-1938 Wallace Elliot bequest(23/05/2008) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr Wallace Elliot |
| Object history | London, Andrade, 1927. From Mrs. C. Hemmings Collection. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Hobson, R. L., Catalogue of a collection of early English earthenware and other works of art, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1913.
Case F |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.55-1938 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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