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

Shepherd playing flute

Figure Group
1790-1795 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure group of biscuit porcelain. A piping shepherd boy with a lamb at this feet. He wares a short coat and knee-breeches and leans on a tree stump on which hangs a satchel. On the stump and on the circular base are applied flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleShepherd playing flute (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Biscuit porcelain
Brief description
Figure group of a shepherd playing a flute, biscuit porcelain, modelled by J.J. Spängler, Derby Porcelain factory, Derby, 1790-1795.
Physical description
Figure group of biscuit porcelain. A piping shepherd boy with a lamb at this feet. He wares a short coat and knee-breeches and leans on a tree stump on which hangs a satchel. On the stump and on the circular base are applied flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'D' surmounted by a crown and crossed batons and six dots (Maker's mark incised on base)
  • 'No. 369' (Figure model number incised on base)
  • A triangle
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Bemrose, William. Bow, Chelsea and Derby porcelain. London and Derby, Bemrose and sons, Ltd, 1898, p. 75
Collection
Accession number
3014-1901

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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