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

Water

Figure
1772-1775 (modelled)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of Water represented by a woman with a wreath of rushes and a flowered mantle wrapped around her; she stands on a shell-shaped base and holds up a net full of fish in her right hand whilst her left rests on the rim of an overturned urn from which water is flowing; three fish lie on the base at her feet


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleWater (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of Water represented by a woman with a wreath of rushes and her left hand rests on the rim of an overturned urn from which water is flowing, made by Bristol porcelain factory, Bristol, modelled 1772-1775
Physical description
Figure, in hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, of Water represented by a woman with a wreath of rushes and a flowered mantle wrapped around her; she stands on a shell-shaped base and holds up a net full of fish in her right hand whilst her left rests on the rim of an overturned urn from which water is flowing; three fish lie on the base at her feet
Dimensions
  • Height: 25.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
'T°' [Impressed] (The mark of the 'repairer', traditionally identified as 'Tebo' but possibly John Toulouse or another)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of four figures, emblematic of the Elements, with 414:731/ to C-1885 (Sch. I 743 to C)
Lady Charlotte Schreiber purchased three of these figures from Heigham or Higham, London, for £24 in July 1868 and the fourth from Wareham, London, for £10 10 shillings in July 1871
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 743C - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:731/C-1885

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Record createdFebruary 19, 2009
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