Pensent-ils au raisin?
Figure Group
ca. 1775 (made)
ca. 1775 (made)
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Figure group in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, of a male youth and a girl seated with a lamb between them on a rocky mound, offering each other grapes, and the youth wears a short-sleeved coat over a waistcoat with a sash, and knee-breeches, and the girl is in a laced bodice and full skirt, and she has grapes in her lap and in a basket on her right arm, and several bunches are strewn on the ground and in the youth's hat which lies at his feet.
Object details
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| Title | <i>Pensent-ils au raisin?</i> (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Pensent-ils au raisin?figure group in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, of a male youth and a girl offering each other grapes and seated with a lamb between them, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1775. |
| Physical description | Figure group in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, of a male youth and a girl seated with a lamb between them on a rocky mound, offering each other grapes, and the youth wears a short-sleeved coat over a waistcoat with a sash, and knee-breeches, and the girl is in a laced bodice and full skirt, and she has grapes in her lap and in a basket on her right arm, and several bunches are strewn on the ground and in the youth's hat which lies at his feet. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Copied from an engraving by Jacques Philippe Le Bas, after a painting by François Boucher, dated 1747, entitled Pensent-ils au raisin? Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Willson, London, for £17 in April 1881 |
| Production | Label - adapted from an engraving by Jacques Phillipe Le Bas after a painting by Boucher entitled 'Pensent-ils au raisin?' |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Other number | Sch. I 355 - Schreiber number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 414:423-1885 |
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| Record created | August 14, 2008 |
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