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

Figure

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

Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a finch with its head turned back, the left wing slightly raised, and black on the crown of the head; perched on a flowering tree stump, which rises from a shaped stand with rococo scrollwork on the front


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a finch with its head turned back, made by Plymouth Porcelain Factory, Plymouth, ca. 1770
Physical description
Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a finch with its head turned back, the left wing slightly raised, and black on the crown of the head; perched on a flowering tree stump, which rises from a shaped stand with rococo scrollwork on the front
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.7cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of a pair with 414:705-1885 (Sch. I 709)
Lady Charlotte Schreiber bought these two birds from Wareham, London, for £11 10 shillings in April 1874
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 709A - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:705/A-1885

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Record createdFebruary 4, 2009
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