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

Figure

1750-1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Standing female figure symbolising 'Justice' on a pedestal and holding a brass sword and scales. Painted decoration in blue, manganese, two shades of green, yellow, red, black and gold. Some of the colours are badly fired and there is extensive overpainting on the dress of the figure. The moulded figure is hollow and has a pierced firing-ventilation hole in the bottom.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration and brass
Brief description
Female figure of Justice carrying sword and scales, tin-glazed earthenware with painted polychrome decoration and brass, possibly Delft, 1750-1775.
Physical description
Standing female figure symbolising 'Justice' on a pedestal and holding a brass sword and scales. Painted decoration in blue, manganese, two shades of green, yellow, red, black and gold. Some of the colours are badly fired and there is extensive overpainting on the dress of the figure. The moulded figure is hollow and has a pierced firing-ventilation hole in the bottom.
Dimensions
  • Height: 41.7cm
  • Width: 22.4cm
Gallery label
Female figure depicting Justice possibly made Delft, Netherlands 1750-75 Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration, brass 56-1874 The polychromy is probably a 19th-century addition.(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bought from the Haliburton Collection
Production
According to Jan Daan van Dam and Hans & Jacobien Ressing 14-11-2001, probably piece of white Delft, 'improved' by enamelled polychromy in the 19th century.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Lunsingh Scheurleer, D. F. Delft: Niederlandische Fayence. Munich, 1984. Fig.406.
  • Lunsingh Scheurleer, D. F. Delfts Blauw. Bussum, 1975. Fig.24.
Collection
Accession number
56-1874

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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