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

St. James the Great

Figure
ca. 1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure, probably of St James the Great, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. He is standing, with long hair, bearded, his left arm drawn across his chest. He wears a purple flowered pink tunic, sandals, and a full cloak of a dirty green colour. Scrolled mound base picked out in green and pink, and decorated with a red bottle.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSt. James the Great (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure, probably of St. James the Great, soft-paste porcelain enamelled in colours and gilded, Derby porcelain factory, ca. 1755
Physical description
Figure, probably of St James the Great, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. He is standing, with long hair, bearded, his left arm drawn across his chest. He wears a purple flowered pink tunic, sandals, and a full cloak of a dirty green colour. Scrolled mound base picked out in green and pink, and decorated with a red bottle.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.8cm
Height converted from imperial
Credit line
Bequeathed by Arthur Hurst
Object history
Previously identified as St Thomas and King Lear
Bibliographic references
  • Bundock, Nicholas, ‘The Derby “Dry-Edge” Apostles’, English Ceramic Circle Transactions. Vol. 24, 2013, pp. 177-94
  • Mallet, J.V.G. 'Agostino Carlini and Dry-Edge Derby' in Walford, Tom and Hilary Young British Ceramic Design, 1600-2002: Papers presented at the colloquium celebrating the 75th anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle, 1927-2002. 2003, p. 47, compare fig. 8.
Collection
Accession number
C.298-1940

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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