Minuet dancer
Figure
1760-1765 (made)
1760-1765 (made)
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Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, of a woman dancing a minuet, and she is dressed in a crimson-lined greenish-blue clock hanging loosely from her shoulders, yellow bodice with flowered and gilt panel in the front, flowered skirt which she holds out with both hands, and red shoes, and she is supported by a rococo scrolled gilt base painted with sprays of flowers.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Minuet dancer (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 a woman dancing a minuet, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, 1760-1765. |
| Physical description | Figure, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, of a woman dancing a minuet, and she is dressed in a crimson-lined greenish-blue clock hanging loosely from her shoulders, yellow bodice with flowered and gilt panel in the front, flowered skirt which she holds out with both hands, and red shoes, and she is supported by a rococo scrolled gilt base painted with sprays of flowers. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | One of a pair of figures with man 414:177-1885 (Sch. I 297) The pair was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mrs Haliburton, Richmond, for £15 in March 1871 Acquired as Chelsea porcelain. The figures are copied from a painting by Antoine Watteau in the National Gallery of Scotland |
| Production | Label - after Antoine Watteau. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Other number | Sch. I 297A - Schreiber number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 414:177/A-1885 |
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| Record created | August 14, 2008 |
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