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

Grape vendor

Figure
1755-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a grape vendor, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and slightly gilded, of a girl seated with a basket of grapes on her lap on a stump rising from a rococo scrolled base, on which are large applied flowers and leaves, and she is clad in a crimson hat, yellow bodice, and flowered skirt.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGrape vendor (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure of a grape vendor, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and slightly gilded, of a girl seated with a basket of grapes on her lap, made William Duesbury & Co., Derby, 1755-1760.
Physical description
Figure of a grape vendor, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and slightly gilded, of a girl seated with a basket of grapes on her lap on a stump rising from a rococo scrolled base, on which are large applied flowers and leaves, and she is clad in a crimson hat, yellow bodice, and flowered skirt.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.4cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of a pair with boy vendor 414:14-1885 (Sch. I 291)
The pair were purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Morley, London, for £7 in May 1882
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 291A - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:14/A-1885

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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