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

Figure Group

ca. 1766-1767 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Group of Chinese figures, hard-paste porcelain. A Chinese woman standing; behind her a boy.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Figure group, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, modelled by Joseph Anton Weinmüller, Ludwigsburg porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1765-1767
Physical description
Group of Chinese figures, hard-paste porcelain. A Chinese woman standing; behind her a boy.
Dimensions
  • Height: 27.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Elbs' (Incised)
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Murray Bequest
Subjects depicted
Associated object
C.739-1923 (Series)
Bibliographic reference
Christina H. Nelson with Letitia Roberts. The Warda Stevens Stout Collection, A History of Eighteenth-Century German Porcelain. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Hudson Hills Press, Easthampton and New York, 2013. Illustrated Ludwigsburg section, fig. 5b, 339p
Collection
Accession number
C.738-1923

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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