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

Minerva

Figure
ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of Minerva, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, standing with her left hand resting on a shield with the Gorgon's head on a four-footed rococo scrolled base with applied flowers, and at her feet is an owl, and she wears a plumed helmet, a cuirass with gilt scales over a blue robe, and a yellow cloak with crimson flowered lining thrown loosely around her.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMinerva (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure of Minerva, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, standing with her left hand resting on a shield with the Gorgon's head on a four-footed rococo scrolled base, made by Bow Porcelain Factory, London, ca. 1760.
Physical description
Figure of Minerva, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, standing with her left hand resting on a shield with the Gorgon's head on a four-footed rococo scrolled base with applied flowers, and at her feet is an owl, and she wears a plumed helmet, a cuirass with gilt scales over a blue robe, and a yellow cloak with crimson flowered lining thrown loosely around her.
Dimensions
  • Height: 35.2cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Raphael, Madrid, for £5 in March 1872
For another similar version of this model, see 414:7-1885
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Bradshaw, Peter. Bow Porcelain Figures, circa 1748-1774. 1992, fig. 85
Other number
Sch. I 55 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:7-1885

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Record createdDecember 8, 2008
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