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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Statuette

ca. 1600-50 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
France (made)

Modelled figure representing Neptune riding on a seahorse and painting with coloured glazes.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Statuette
Materials and techniques
Earthenware
Brief description
Buff earthenware with coloured glazes depicting Neptune on a seahorse. French, possibly Paris, about 1600-50
Physical description
Modelled figure representing Neptune riding on a seahorse and painting with coloured glazes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.2cm
  • Length: 17.8cm
  • Width: 10.0cm
  • Weight: 0.92kg
Style
Renaissance
Credit line
Bought
Object history
Formerly in the Bandinel Collection.
Subjects depicted
Neptune
Henri IV
Bibliographic references
  • Ballot, M.J., Musée du Louvre. La ceramique francaise. Bernard Palissy, etc.
  • McNab, Jessie, Seventeenth-Century French Ceramic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of aRt, New York, 1987
  • Techne, no.47 (2019). Centre de recherché et de restauration des musées de France. Bernard Palissy, Nouveaux regards sur la céramique francaise aux XVI et XVII siecles (for a similiar figure at the Musée de Picardie, Amiens)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
3067-1853

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O306904/statuette-unknown/
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