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

Group

ca. 1756-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure group, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of two boys, naked except for drapery thrown over their shoulders, feeding a goat; one of the boys sits on a rock with a basket of grapes under his arm and his left arm around the horns of a goat that stands beside him with its mouth full of grapes; the other boy reclines beside the rock with his right hand on the edge of the basket; they are supported on a rococo scrolled pedestal with applied flowers


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure group, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of two boys feeding a goat, made by Vauxhall porcelain factory, London, ca. 1756-60
Physical description
Figure group, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of two boys, naked except for drapery thrown over their shoulders, feeding a goat; one of the boys sits on a rock with a basket of grapes under his arm and his left arm around the horns of a goat that stands beside him with its mouth full of grapes; the other boy reclines beside the rock with his right hand on the edge of the basket; they are supported on a rococo scrolled pedestal with applied flowers
Dimensions
  • Height: 13cm
  • Width: 15.2cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Acquired as Longton Hall
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Dalgleish, London, for £1 10 shillings in 1867
Production
This is from a group of soft-paste porcelain figure models that were also made in hard-paste porcelain at Plymouth. Previously attributed to Longton Hall.
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 435 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:677-1885

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2009
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