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

Four cupids hunting

Figure Group
ca. 1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
William Duesbury & Co. (manufacturer)
Gauron, Nicholas (modeller)
Place of origin
Derby (manufactured)

Figure group in biscuit porcelain of four Cupids as sportsmen. The four Cupids are wearing a hat and slight drapery, and they stand with two dogs around a tree-trunk on a rocky mound. One has a gun and wallet, one is playing a hunting-horn, one plays a pipe, and the fourth rests his arm on a birdcage.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Figure group
TitleFour cupids hunting (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Biscuit porcelain
Biscuit
Brief description
Figure group in biscuit porcelain of four Cupids as sportsmen, probably modelled by Nicholas Gauron, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1790.
Physical description
Figure group in biscuit porcelain of four Cupids as sportsmen. The four Cupids are wearing a hat and slight drapery, and they stand with two dogs around a tree-trunk on a rocky mound. One has a gun and wallet, one is playing a hunting-horn, one plays a pipe, and the fourth rests his arm on a birdcage.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'D' surmounted by a crown and crossed batons and six dots (Maker's mark incised on base)
  • 'N 251' (Figure model number incised on base)
  • '3' (Incised on base)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Production
Model attributed to Nicholas Gauron by Timothy Clifford
Subjects depicted
Tree
Dogs
Horn
Pipe
Birdcage
Cupid
Bibliographic reference
Charles Hind, ed. The Rococo in England: A Symposium. London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.277-1935

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O165508/four-cupids-hunting-figure-group-gauron-nicholas/
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