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

Figure

ca. 1759-1762 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a reaper of hard-paste porcelain. The young girl wears broad-brimmed yellow hat, white shirt, apricot skirt and pale pink apron; she tends forward with a sickle in her right hand, about to cut a swathe of wheat. The low irregular, oval mound base edged with scrollwork picked out in pink and gilding. The underside of the base slightly convex, glazed, and with a strengthening ridge across it.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, enamelled and gilt
Brief description
Figure of a reaper, hard-paste porcelain, enamelled and gilt, from a model by Johann Wilhelm Lan, Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, Germany, ca. 1759-62.
Physical description
Figure of a reaper of hard-paste porcelain. The young girl wears broad-brimmed yellow hat, white shirt, apricot skirt and pale pink apron; she tends forward with a sickle in her right hand, about to cut a swathe of wheat. The low irregular, oval mound base edged with scrollwork picked out in pink and gilding. The underside of the base slightly convex, glazed, and with a strengthening ridge across it.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A lion (In underglaze blue)
  • 'IHI' in monogram and three dots forming a triangle (Incised)
  • '3' (In brown enamel)
Production
From a model by Johann Wilhelm Lanz.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.81-1969

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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