Furniture Mount
ca. 1760 (made)
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| 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
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| 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 | Furniture mount PAIR OF FURNITURE MOUNTS
Porcelain
ITALY (DOCCIA); about 1760
5424A&J-1859
(Label draft attributed to John V. G. Mallet, ca. 1995)(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 created | September 22, 2009 |
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