Caritas (Charity)
Group
ca. 1759 (made)
ca. 1759 (made)
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Group depicting Charity (Caritas) with putti, hard-paste porcelain. A woman, dressed in a head-cloth and flowered smock, seated on a high rococo base, giving suck to a child. Another child, naked, on her right; a third, clothed in a white shirt, on her left. A garland of flowers in natural colours hangs down in front of the base, which is outlined in yellow, with details in bluish-green.
Object details
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| Title | Caritas (Charity) |
| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Group depicting Charity (Caritas) with putti, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamel colours; modelled by Johann Christoph Rombrich, Germany, Fürstenberg Porcelain, ca. 1759. |
| Physical description | Group depicting Charity (Caritas) with putti, hard-paste porcelain. A woman, dressed in a head-cloth and flowered smock, seated on a high rococo base, giving suck to a child. Another child, naked, on her right; a third, clothed in a white shirt, on her left. A garland of flowers in natural colours hangs down in front of the base, which is outlined in yellow, with details in bluish-green. |
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| Accession number | C.141-1930 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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