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

Figure

ca. 1765-1770 (made), ca. 1752 (modelled)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a peasant, of hard-paste porcelain. Bowing and drinking from a jug. Flowered base. Painted with enamel colours and gilt, the costume blue-green, mauve and yellow.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Figure of a peasant, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, perhaps modelled by J. J. Kändler, about 1752, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1765-70
Physical description
Figure of a peasant, of hard-paste porcelain. Bowing and drinking from a jug. Flowered base. Painted with enamel colours and gilt, the costume blue-green, mauve and yellow.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords (Factory mark in underglaze blue, behind base)
  • '95' (Impressed)
  • '6' (In puce)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Berling, K. Meissner Porzellan und seine Geschichte Leipzig, 1900, p. 196
Collection
Accession number
C.1468-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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