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Furniture Mount

ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This mount originally formed part of the ebony base for a figure of the Crouching Venus seated on a shell, also in the V&A Museum (Museum number 5423-1859).

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain
Brief description
Furniture mount in hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, ca. 1760.
Physical description
Furniture mount in hard-paste porcelain
Gallery label
(ca. 1995)
Furniture mount PAIR OF FURNITURE MOUNTS
Porcelain
ITALY (DOCCIA); about 1760
5424A&J-1859
(Label draft attributed to John V. G. Mallet, ca. 1995)
Object history
Part of a set 5424 to M-1859.
Historical context
This mount originally formed part of the ebony base for a figure of the Crouching Venus seated on a shell, also in the V&A Museum (Museum number 5423-1859).
Summary
This mount originally formed part of the ebony base for a figure of the Crouching Venus seated on a shell, also in the V&A Museum (Museum number 5423-1859).
Bibliographic reference
Kräftner, Johann (ed.), Lichtenstein Museum Vienna: Baroque luxury porcelain: The manufactories of du Paquier in Vienna and of Carlo Ginori in Florence, Munich, Berlin, London, New York 2005, pp. 253-254
Collection
Accession number
5424J-1859

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Record createdSeptember 22, 2009
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