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Pegasus

Figure
1938 (original model made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stoneware figure of a recumbent Peagsus covered with turquoise glaze. Shape 3619.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitlePegasus (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Glazed stoneware
Brief description
'Pegasus' figure, stoneware, modelled by Hans Henrik Hansen, made by Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 1938
Physical description
Stoneware figure of a recumbent Peagsus covered with turquoise glaze. Shape 3619.
Dimensions
  • Length: 35cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • ‘ROYAL COPENHAGEN DENMARK’ around a crown

    Note
    Printed in green

  • '3619'

    Note
    Incised

  • 'HH 31'

    Note
    Incised

  • Three undulating lines

    Note
    Painted in blue

  • '3619'

    Note
    painted in blue

Gallery label
(23/05/2008)
Figure 'Pegasus'
modelled by Hans Henrik Hansen, made by Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1938
Marks: 'Royal Copenhagen Denmark' around a crown printed in green, '3619' and 'HH 31' incised, three wavy lines 3619' painted in lbue
Stoneware

C.111-1986
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 42 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
C.111-1986

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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