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

Spring

Figural Candlestick
ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Candlestick, of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, formed as a figure of a woman with flowers, emblematic of Spring; she stands in front of a flowering tree on a high pedestal, covered with applied flowers and resting on symmetrical rococo scrolled feet; the trunk of the tree forms a support for the candle nozzle, which is missing; the woman holds up a stem of flowers with her right hand, and with her left supports a plant in a basket on her hips; she is dressed in a red hat and shoes, a green bodice with a gold floral pattern on the front, a mauve scarf thrown round her shoulder, and a white apron over a skirt decorated with flowers, and sprays of flowers are also painted in white slip on her apron.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSpring (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Candlestick, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, formed as a figure of a woman with flowers, emblematic of Spring, made by Plymouth Porcelain Factory, Plymouth, ca. 1770
Physical description
Candlestick, of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, formed as a figure of a woman with flowers, emblematic of Spring; she stands in front of a flowering tree on a high pedestal, covered with applied flowers and resting on symmetrical rococo scrolled feet; the trunk of the tree forms a support for the candle nozzle, which is missing; the woman holds up a stem of flowers with her right hand, and with her left supports a plant in a basket on her hips; she is dressed in a red hat and shoes, a green bodice with a gold floral pattern on the front, a mauve scarf thrown round her shoulder, and a white apron over a skirt decorated with flowers, and sprays of flowers are also painted in white slip on her apron.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.4cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of a pair with 414:687/A-1885 (Sch. I 704A); on this, however, see below.
Lady Charlotte Schreiber purchased one of these figures from Walker, Bath, for £9 in April 1869, and the other from Button, Brighton, for £21 in May 1874
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 704 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:687-1885

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Record createdFebruary 4, 2009
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