Not currently on display at the V&A

Autumn

Relief
ca. 1700-1720 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This three quarter figure of a laughing woman in voluminous dark green drapery held over the right shoulder by a jewelled gold chain. She wears a lace edged white robe which has been pulled over the right shoulder partly to expose the breasts. In her raised right arm she holds a vine with grapes, one spary of which falls over the left shoulder and is held at the waist in her left hand; while a second is arrnaged round her light brown hair. Round the wrists and in her ears there are small seed pearsls. The background is made of black glass.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Relief
  • Fragment
TitleAutumn
Materials and techniques
Coloured wax and stones
Brief description
Wax, South German (?), about 1700-1720
Physical description
Relief in coloured wax and stones.
Dimensions
  • Frame height: 14.5cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr Anstie Guthrie
Object history
Bequeathed by F Anstie Guthrie Esq.
Subject depicted
Summary
This three quarter figure of a laughing woman in voluminous dark green drapery held over the right shoulder by a jewelled gold chain. She wears a lace edged white robe which has been pulled over the right shoulder partly to expose the breasts. In her raised right arm she holds a vine with grapes, one spary of which falls over the left shoulder and is held at the waist in her left hand; while a second is arrnaged round her light brown hair. Round the wrists and in her ears there are small seed pearsls. The background is made of black glass.
Collection
Accession number
A.15:1,2-1934

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Record createdMarch 12, 2004
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