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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. 1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a woman, represented Spring, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She stands with a basket of flowers over her right arm. She wears a green jacket trimmed with gold, a flowered skirt partly raised by her left hand, blue shoes, and a lilac hat with a blue band fastened at the neck with blue ribbon. Irregular flat base with applied flowers and leaves.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure of a woman, representing Spring, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, Bow Porcelain Factory, Bow, ca. 1755
Physical description
Figure of a woman, represented Spring, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She stands with a basket of flowers over her right arm. She wears a green jacket trimmed with gold, a flowered skirt partly raised by her left hand, blue shoes, and a lilac hat with a blue band fastened at the neck with blue ribbon. Irregular flat base with applied flowers and leaves.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.9cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Object history
For a later version of this figure on a scrolled base, see C.657-1925
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Bradshaw, Peter. Bow Porcelain Figures, circa 1748-1774. 1992, fig. 128
Collection
Accession number
C.656-1925

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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