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

Group

1830-1847 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Group of chained stags, biscuit porcelain in domed case. Group of two stags, the right-hand one lying down on the flower-strewn rockwork base with one of its antlers touching a tree-trunk behind it. The left-hand stag in standing, his body joined to a tree stump. The stags both wear a collar to which is attached a chain linking one to the other.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Group
  • Dome
  • Dome
Materials and techniques
Biscuit porcelain
Brief description
Group of chained stags, biscuit porcelain in domed case, workshop of George Cocker and John Whitaker, Friar Gate, Derby, 1830-47
Physical description
Group of chained stags, biscuit porcelain in domed case. Group of two stags, the right-hand one lying down on the flower-strewn rockwork base with one of its antlers touching a tree-trunk behind it. The left-hand stag in standing, his body joined to a tree stump. The stags both wear a collar to which is attached a chain linking one to the other.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
'104' and '127' (In ink inside the base)
Production
Made at the workshop in Friar Gate, Derby, where George Cocker was in partnership with a gilder, John Whitaker.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.264 to B-1976

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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