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

La Nourrice

Figure
ca. 1749-1752 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure, in white soft-paste porcelain, of a wet nurse with a child, and she is dressed in a 16th century costume and, seated on a low pedestal, with the child wrapped in swaddling clothes on her lap.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleLa Nourrice (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain
Brief description
Figure, in white soft-paste porcelain, of a wet nurse with a child on her lap, made by Chelsea Porcelain factory, London, ca. 1749-1752
Physical description
Figure, in white soft-paste porcelain, of a wet nurse with a child, and she is dressed in a 16th century costume and, seated on a low pedestal, with the child wrapped in swaddling clothes on her lap.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
An anchor in relief on an applied oval medallion
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Copied from one of the statuettes made at Avon, near Fontainebleau, late in the 16th century, from a model attributed to Bertélémy de Blénod.
Given to Lady Charlotte Schreiber by Lord Fortescue in November 1868
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 122 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:138-1885

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Record createdDecember 12, 2008
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