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

Figure

ca. 1736 (made), ca. 1736 (modelled)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of Tyrolean woman playing a hurdygurdy, of hard-paste porcelain. She is seated on a rock support, legs extending beyond base. Painted in enamel colours and gilt. Iron-red broad-brimmed hat, white apron, green and purple striped skirt, purple lustre bodice with gold lattice-pattern, red shoes. Mounted as a candlestick on Rococo ormolu base with metal branches painted green holding soft-paste flowers and two ormolu nozzles.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Candlestick
  • Nozzle
  • Nozzle
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, with ormolu mount
Brief description
Figure of Tyrolean woman playing a hurdygurdy, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, with ormolu mount, modelled by J. F. Eberlein and J. J. Kändler about 1736, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1736
Physical description
Figure of Tyrolean woman playing a hurdygurdy, of hard-paste porcelain. She is seated on a rock support, legs extending beyond base. Painted in enamel colours and gilt. Iron-red broad-brimmed hat, white apron, green and purple striped skirt, purple lustre bodice with gold lattice-pattern, red shoes. Mounted as a candlestick on Rococo ormolu base with metal branches painted green holding soft-paste flowers and two ormolu nozzles.
Dimensions
  • Figure height: 11.7cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss Florence Augusta Beare in memory of Arthur Doveton Clarke
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
Collection
Accession number
C.920-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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