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 of a woman, hard-paste porcelain. She is standing, her left arm up-raised to avoid a dog (missing from the group), her left arm resting on a tree stump over which is hanging a green fur-edged wallet and a brace of dead game-birds. She is wearing a jacket (with green cuffs) skirt, of dull fawn-collar diapered with dull green flowers; three-cornered hat and black shoes; over her left shoulder is hung a flask on a black strap. Very slightly mounded oval base coloured with patches of grey and violet.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure of a woman, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, Zürich faience and porcelain factory, Switzerland, ca. 1770
Physical description
Figure of a woman, hard-paste porcelain. She is standing, her left arm up-raised to avoid a dog (missing from the group), her left arm resting on a tree stump over which is hanging a green fur-edged wallet and a brace of dead game-birds. She is wearing a jacket (with green cuffs) skirt, of dull fawn-collar diapered with dull green flowers; three-cornered hat and black shoes; over her left shoulder is hung a flask on a black strap. Very slightly mounded oval base coloured with patches of grey and violet.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.0cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Z' in underglaze blue
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Murray Bequest
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.411-1926

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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