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

Figure

ca. 1760-1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

Figure in white glazed porcelain of Cleopatra, lightly draped, reclining and her right arm over her head.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Figure
Materials and techniques
Glazed porcelain
Porcelain
Glazed
Brief description
Figure in white glazed porcelain of Cleopatra, made in England, ca. 1760-1775
Physical description
Figure in white glazed porcelain of Cleopatra, lightly draped, reclining and her right arm over her head.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.9cm
  • Length: 27.9cm
Credit line
Given by Mr M.N. Baker, Esq.
Production
Previously attributed to the Richard Chaffers factory, Liverpool.
The V&A also has a version of the same model in polychrome earthenware: 112-1874
Subjects depicted
Woman
Cleopatra
Bibliographic references
  • Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981), 4, 81, 95, 184-7
  • D.Edwards, Neale Pottery and Porcelain, London, Melbourne, Auckland, Johannesburg, 1987, pp. 100, 108-109, figs. 88-89 & footnote 14, 15.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.1-1932

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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