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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

ca. 1760-1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded of a girl holding up a bird. Her right arm is extended and holds out her apron containing a bird's nest with three chicks. She steps forward onto her left foot.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded of a girl holding up a bird, Imperial Vienna Porcelain factory, Vienna, ca. 1760-1765
Physical description
Figure in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded of a girl holding up a bird. Her right arm is extended and holds out her apron containing a bird's nest with three chicks. She steps forward onto her left foot.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A beehive (In underglaze blue)
  • 'Q' (Incised)
  • 'Sch 5' (Painted in black)
Credit line
Given by Miss D.E. White, in memory of Pauline and Frank Taussig and Mary Kupfer
Production
Possibly inspired by the series Enfant Boucher manufactured at Sèvres in biscuit in the 1750s.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.15-1978

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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