Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Prudence

Figure
ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, of Prudence as a nude little girl with a loose scarf thrown round her body, and she stands on a rocky mound covered with flowering plants and shells, beside a gilt-edged urn hung with festoons supported on a square pedestal, and she holds a snake in her right hand and a mirror handle in her left.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitlePrudence (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, of Prudence as a nude little girl standing beside an urn, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1775.
Physical description
Figure in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, of Prudence as a nude little girl with a loose scarf thrown round her body, and she stands on a rocky mound covered with flowering plants and shells, beside a gilt-edged urn hung with festoons supported on a square pedestal, and she holds a snake in her right hand and a mirror handle in her left.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.3cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of a pair with 414:410-1885 (Sch. I 344)
The pair was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Miss Haliburton, Isleworth, for £5 in 1869
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Bradshaw, Peter. Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848. London: Faber & Faber, 1990. 180 p., pl. 139.
Other number
Sch. I 344A - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:410/A-1885

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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