Diana
Figure
ca. 1765 (made)
ca. 1765 (made)
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Figure of Diana in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. She looks aloft,her right arm raised to take an arrow from a quiver on her back. In her left hand, which is at her side, she had a porcelain fitting for a bow, now missing. In her hair she wears a crescent, emblematic of the moon. She wears thonged sandals and a sash at her waist. A greyhound stand on all fours at her side. The base, of swirled rococo scrollwork, stands on three feet. Four 'patch marks' on the base.
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Title | Diana (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast and painted in enamels and gilded |
Brief description | Figure of Diana, soft-paste porcelain enamelled in colours and gilt, William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1765 |
Physical description | Figure of Diana in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. She looks aloft,her right arm raised to take an arrow from a quiver on her back. In her left hand, which is at her side, she had a porcelain fitting for a bow, now missing. In her hair she wears a crescent, emblematic of the moon. She wears thonged sandals and a sash at her waist. A greyhound stand on all fours at her side. The base, of swirled rococo scrollwork, stands on three feet. Four 'patch marks' on the base. |
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Credit line | Bequeathed by G. N. Abram |
Object history | Larger variants of this figure with the greyhound seated are illustrated in J. Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (1980), p.63, fig. 53 and P. Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 (1990) p.111, and a third is in the V&A (C.711-1925). Bradshaw remarks that the version of Diana in the act of selecting an arrow from a quiver slung behind her was copied from J.F. Eberlein's Meissen model, which was adapted from a 17th-century French bronze, which in turn derives from an archaic Greek marble of Artemis (op. cit. p. 63). |
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Accession number | C.223-1986 |
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Record created | August 14, 2008 |
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