Figure
ca. 1780 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Figure of a peasant girl in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. She stands bare-headed and bare foot, and her right arm is outstretched. Flat marbled base.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Figure of a peasant girl in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, Doccia porcelain factory, Florence, ca. 1780 |
| Physical description | Figure of a peasant girl in hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. She stands bare-headed and bare foot, and her right arm is outstretched. Flat marbled base. |
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| Credit line | Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014
p. 65, Cat.42
42. Figure of a peasant girl
circa 1780
hard-paste porcelain painted in colours
h 13,2 cm
under the base impressed circle
inv. C.18-1915
gift: Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO through The Art Fund
In the various Inventories of Models and Moulds at the Doccia factory, figures called “peasant boy” or “peasant girl” are mentioned numerous times but the absence of further details makes it impossible to identify with certainty this figure. The figure is one of the many representations of country folk, most of which were copied from similar ones manufactured at Sèvres (BIANCALANA 2011, p. 109-113). This figure was originally attributed to Capodimonte (concerning the mistaken attributions of objects from Doccia to Capodimonte in English collections, see MARITANO 2012, p. 14-17).
A.B.
Bibliography: unpublished |
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| Accession number | C.18-1915 |
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| Record created | May 5, 2010 |
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