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

Figure

ca. 1750-1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of Apollo in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. He stands beside a tree stump with applied flowers and plays a lyre which he holds in his left hand. At his feet is a flaming torch. He wears loose flowered drapery. He wears a chaplet of green leaves. Rococo scrolled base picked out in yellow.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure of Apollo in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Bow Porcelain Factory, Bow, ca. 1760-1765
Physical description
Figure of Apollo in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. He stands beside a tree stump with applied flowers and plays a lyre which he holds in his left hand. At his feet is a flaming torch. He wears loose flowered drapery. He wears a chaplet of green leaves. Rococo scrolled base picked out in yellow.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.4cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.659-1925

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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