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

Blue tit

Figure
1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a blue tit perched on the stump of a flowering tree


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBlue tit (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a blue tit perched on the stump of a flowering tree, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, 1770
Physical description
Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, of a blue tit perched on the stump of a flowering tree
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.7cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of a pair with 414:230/A-1885 (Sch. I 312A)
The pair was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Van Houtum, Amsterdam, for 16 shillings in August 1867.
Acquired as Chelsea porcelain.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Barrett, Franklin A. & Arthur L. Thorpe. Derby Porcelain, 1750-1848. London: Faber & Faber, 1971.
Other number
Sch. I 312 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:230-1885

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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