On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Figure

1930 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Royal Copenhagen (manufacturer)
Kyhn, Knud (modeller)
Place of origin
Copenhagen (manufactured)

Grey stoneware figure of a monkey suckling its young with mottled glaze. Shape 20241.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Stoneware
Object type
Figure
Materials and techniques
Stoneware modelled with mottled glaze
Stoneware
Glazed
Modelled
Brief description
Figure of a monkey suckling its young, the original modelled by Knud Kyhn, made by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, 1930, stoneware
Physical description
Grey stoneware figure of a monkey suckling its young with mottled glaze. Shape 20241.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '20241' (Incised)
  • Three wavy lines and 'KK' (Painted in blue)
Gallery label
(16/07/2008)
Figure 'of a monkey suckling its young'
Knud Kyhn, made by Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (0riginal modelled ) 1930
Marks: '20241',incised three wavy lines and 'KK' painted in blue
Stoneware

C.16-139 Given by the maker
Credit line
Given by the maker
Production
The original modelled by Knud Kyhn in 1930
Subject depicted
Monkey
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 40 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.16-1939

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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