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

Group

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

Miniature group of tailors and a customer, hard-paste porcelain. The man stands wearing a black hat and a blue coat, while one tailor, seated on an oval table, sews a gold-trimmed waistcoat, and another standing between them, presses a similar garment.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Miniature group of tailors and a customer, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, Ludwigsburg porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1765-70
Physical description
Miniature group of tailors and a customer, hard-paste porcelain. The man stands wearing a black hat and a blue coat, while one tailor, seated on an oval table, sews a gold-trimmed waistcoat, and another standing between them, presses a similar garment.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Interlaced 'C's' (In underglaze blue)
  • [Indecipherable painter's mark] (In black)
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.951-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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