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

Candlestick Figure

ca. 1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Candlestick in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded of a female musician with a guitar and a lamb, and she is seated between two branches of rococo scrollwork supporting candle-sockets.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Candlestick in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded of a female musician with a guitar and a lamb, William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1765.
Physical description
Candlestick in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded of a female musician with a guitar and a lamb, and she is seated between two branches of rococo scrollwork supporting candle-sockets.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.6cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
One of a pair with C.201-1935. Formerly in the J.G. Mortlock Collection.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W. B. Old English Porcelain. London : Faber & Faber, 1948. 107 p., note 2.
Collection
Accession number
C.201A-1935

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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