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

Figure

ca. 1755-57 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of Cupid in woman's dress, mob-cap, yellow skirt, puce mantle and white flowered muff on a rococo base.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure of Cupid, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, Wegely's porcelain factory, Germany (Berlin), ca. 1755-57
Physical description
Figure of Cupid in woman's dress, mob-cap, yellow skirt, puce mantle and white flowered muff on a rococo base.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
'W' in underglaze blue at back of pedestal
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Honey, W. B. German porcelain London: Faber and Faber, 1947, Pl. 37A, p. 23.
  • Zick, Gisela, Berliner Porzellan der Manufacktur von Wilhelm Caspar Wegely, 1751-1757. Berlin: Mann (German Edition), 1978, p. 215, katalog. NR. 137a.
Collection
Accession number
C.47-1932

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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