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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. 1756-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a goatherd, in soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, enamel colours and gilded. He is shown striding forward, a goat on his back, a (broken) staff in his right hand. He wears a black-starred pink waistcoat, gold-starred blue breeches and carries a yellow-lined pink cloak. High mound base with applied flowers and rococo scrolls picked out in yellowish green and pink.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure of a goatherd, in soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, enamels and gilded, made by Vauxhall porcelain factory, London, ca. 1756-60
Physical description
Figure of a goatherd, in soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, enamel colours and gilded. He is shown striding forward, a goat on his back, a (broken) staff in his right hand. He wears a black-starred pink waistcoat, gold-starred blue breeches and carries a yellow-lined pink cloak. High mound base with applied flowers and rococo scrolls picked out in yellowish green and pink.
Dimensions
  • Height: 25.7cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr Wallace Elliot
Object history
London, Amor, 1926.
Sometimes described as 'copying Meissen', but in fact adapted from a celebrated ancient Roman sculpture of a naked faun with a kid now in the Prado, Madrid (see References)
Production
Previously attributed to Longton Hall
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Massey, Roger. 'Vauxhall Porcelain Figures', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. 25, 2014
Collection
Accession number
C.74-1938

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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