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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. 1750-1752 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a lady with attendant, white glazed porcelain. She is standing her left arm upraised, with her right hand taking a fruit from a tray held up by an attendant standing beside her. She is wearing a wide-paniered skirt and frilled cap. Square low mound base.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, glazed
Brief description
Figure of a lady with attendant, white glazed porcelain, Bow Porcelain Factory, England (London), about 1750-52
Physical description
Figure of a lady with attendant, white glazed porcelain. She is standing her left arm upraised, with her right hand taking a fruit from a tray held up by an attendant standing beside her. She is wearing a wide-paniered skirt and frilled cap. Square low mound base.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.2cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr Wallace Elliot
Object history
Windlesham, C.H.B. Caldwell, 1931.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Bradshaw, Peter. Bow Porcelain Figures, circa 1748-1774. 1992, fig. 45
Collection
Accession number
C.98-1938

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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