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

Smell

Figure
ca. 1745 (made), 1745 (modelled)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of ‘Smell’, from a series of the Five Senses, of hard-paste porcelain. A woman with classical drapery standing by a high square plinth holding an incense burner. She holds a posy of flowers to her nose; at her feet a hunting dog sniffs the ground. Square, flowered base. Ormolu mount, probably contemporary French. Pianted with enamel colours and gilt: white undergarment with an over-drapery of puce with coloured Indian flowers lined in turquoise.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSmell (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Figure of 'Smell', from a series of the Five Senses, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, modelled by J. F. Eberlein (and probably J. J. Kändler), 1745, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1745
Physical description
Figure of ‘Smell’, from a series of the Five Senses, of hard-paste porcelain. A woman with classical drapery standing by a high square plinth holding an incense burner. She holds a posy of flowers to her nose; at her feet a hunting dog sniffs the ground. Square, flowered base. Ormolu mount, probably contemporary French. Pianted with enamel colours and gilt: white undergarment with an over-drapery of puce with coloured Indian flowers lined in turquoise.
Dimensions
  • Height: 28cm
  • Overall with mount height: 33cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss Florence Augusta Beare in memory of Arthur Doveton Clarke
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Honey, W. B. Dresden china: an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain. London: A. & C. Black, 1934, Pl. L (b), p. 119 and Note 242.
  • Mould No. 1054 (Factory Price List, Bl. 6)
Collection
Accession number
C.970-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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