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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. 1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a woman emblematic of Summer, hard-paste porcelain. The woman stands looking to the right at an ear of corn held up in her right hand; her left-hand supports the corner of her apron, which contains other ears of corn. She wears a powdered wig, dressed high and with side curls, magenta necklace, green fichu, white open-fronted jacket and apron with vermilion sprig pattern; her white petticoat has stripes and magenta sprigs and her shoes are vermilion. Slightly moulded domed base supporting the figure at the back and partly tinted green.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure of a woman emblematic of Summer, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels; Germany, Thuringia, Limbach porcelain factory, ca. 1780
Physical description
Figure of a woman emblematic of Summer, hard-paste porcelain. The woman stands looking to the right at an ear of corn held up in her right hand; her left-hand supports the corner of her apron, which contains other ears of corn. She wears a powdered wig, dressed high and with side curls, magenta necklace, green fichu, white open-fronted jacket and apron with vermilion sprig pattern; her white petticoat has stripes and magenta sprigs and her shoes are vermilion. Slightly moulded domed base supporting the figure at the back and partly tinted green.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'LB' in monogram, in pale vermilion
Credit line
Given by Mr Robert W. E. Cecil
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W. B. German porcelain London: Faber and Faber, 1947, Pl. 90A, p. 34.
Collection
Accession number
C.157-1939

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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