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

Figure

1739-1740 (made)
Artist/Maker
Meissen Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Kändler, Johann Joachim (modeller)
Place of origin
Meissen (made)

Figure of a musician with a stringed instrument of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. Standing figure in a grey cloak with gilded patterned and pink lining. He wears a yellow hat with lavender brim, a black ribbon in his hair, white ruff, green jacket with gilding and purple rosettes, red trousers and black shoes with yellow rosettes. Undecorated pad base.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Figures & Decorative Ceramics
Object type
Figure
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded
Hard Paste Porcelain
Painted
Gilded
Brief description
Figure of musician with a stringed instrument of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, modelled by J.J. Kändler, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, 1739-1740.
Physical description
Figure of a musician with a stringed instrument of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. Standing figure in a grey cloak with gilded patterned and pink lining. He wears a yellow hat with lavender brim, a black ribbon in his hair, white ruff, green jacket with gilding and purple rosettes, red trousers and black shoes with yellow rosettes. Undecorated pad base.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17cm
  • Cloak to instrument width: 10.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
'DF20 No...' (indistinct) (Inscribed in ink on paper label)
Credit line
Given by Mrs O. J. Finney in memory of Oswald James Finney
Subjects depicted
Commedia Dell'arte
Musicians
Musical Instruments
Literary referenceCommedia dell'arte
Bibliographic references
  • Hackenbroch, Yvonne. Meissen and other continental porcelain, faience and enamel in the Irwin Untermyer collection. Cambridge, Published for the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harvard University Press, 1956, Fig. 68, Pl. 40.
  • Jansen, Reinhard, ed. Commedia Dell'Arte, Fest der Komödianten, Keramische Kostbarkeiten aus den Museen der Welt Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2001, Cat. 21.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.17-1984

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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