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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

A Beggar

Figure
ca. 1780-ca. 1785 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Unglazed biscuit porcelain figure, a beggar wearing a hat and standing with hands outstretched on an integral, circular plinth.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Beggar (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste biscuit porcelain
Brief description
Figure of a beggar in white biscuit porcelain, by Niderviller pottery and porcelain factory, France, ca. 1780-ca. 1785.
Physical description
Unglazed biscuit porcelain figure, a beggar wearing a hat and standing with hands outstretched on an integral, circular plinth.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.2cm
  • Diameter: 6.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'NIDERVILLE' (In relief on applied strip)
  • 'No. 57' (Incised on side of base)
  • '578 [?]' (Incised under base)
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Production
W. B. Honey, French Porcelain (1950 and 1972), pl. 91B, where dated to ca. 1765-75 and where it is suggested that the model was perhaps by Paul-Louis Cyfflé; however, the object was labelled as 'c. 1785' and Aileen Dawson, Eighteenth-century French porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, 1996, cat. 219, illustrates a similarly marked biscuit figure, which she dates to ca. 1780.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.436-1918

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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