Figure
ca. 1775-80 (made)
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Figure in hard-paste white porcelain of a boy with a lamb. He has torn clothes and bare arms. The lamb stands on a tree stump on his left with its head under his left arm.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain |
| Brief description | Figure in hard-paste porcelain of a boy with a lamb, Cozzi pottery factory, Venice, ca. 1775-80. |
| Physical description | Figure in hard-paste white porcelain of a boy with a lamb. He has torn clothes and bare arms. The lamb stands on a tree stump on his left with its head under his left arm. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lt. Col. Kenneth Dingwall, DSO through Art Fund |
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| Bibliographic reference | D'Agliano, Andreina (ed). Porcellane Italiane dalla Collezione Lokar, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2013. Published with dual text in Italian and English. For a similar figure of a boy modelled with a performing dog, see no. 53 catalogued by Luca Melagati. These children were based on Sèvres models of the 1750s after François Boucher and can probably be identified in the factory records as 'Groupeti Francesi'. In the introduction to the Cozzi section, 73p, the author states 'The Cozzi manufactory...was reluctant to relinquish rococo models even with the advance of neoclassical taste....' |
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| Accession number | C.319-1919 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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