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

Figure

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

Figure of a woman dancing in hard-paste porcelain painted with colours and gilded. She wears a white bodice with a coloured front, flowered white skirt trimmed in blue, and white shoes with blue rosettes.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with colours and gilded
Brief description
Figure of a woman dancing in hard-paste porcelain painted with colours and gilded, Ansbach porcelain factory, Ansbach, ca. 1765.
Physical description
Figure of a woman dancing in hard-paste porcelain painted with colours and gilded. She wears a white bodice with a coloured front, flowered white skirt trimmed in blue, and white shoes with blue rosettes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.7cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss Florence Augusta Beare in memory of Arthur Doveton Clarke
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.955-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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