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

A Shepherd

Figure
ca. 1780s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a shepherd with pipe and crook, a lamb at his feet, biscuit porcelain, the companion to 386-1874


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Shepherd (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Biscuit porcelain
Brief description
Figure of a shepherd, biscuit porcelain, modelling attributed to Charles-Gabriel Lemire, Niderviller pottery and porcelain factory, France, about 1780-1790
Physical description
Figure of a shepherd with pipe and crook, a lamb at his feet, biscuit porcelain, the companion to 386-1874
Marks and inscriptions
'NIDERVILLER' (impressed)
Gallery label
Gallery 128 Decant 2003 The modelling has been attributed to Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, known as Lemire.(07/06/2004)
Object history
Purchased from the Barker Collection
Acquisition type: Purchase
Production
'Probably from a model by Lemire' according to a note in the register (ie Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, known as Lemire, 1741-1827, who left Luneville sometime before 1779 and subsequently worked at Niderviller).
Subjects depicted
Associated object
386-1874 (Set)
Collection
Accession number
385-1874

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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