Figure
ca. 1770 (made)
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Figure of Diana with a hound, hard-paste porcelain. She is standing, right hand to her breast, bow in her left and quiver on her back with the black-spotted hound to her right. She wears a yellow-lined white robe sprigged in colours, with pink cloak fastened at the back and caught up at the waist; on her brow a greenish black crescent. Mounded 'grassy' irregular oval base painted in strong green.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Figure of Diana with a hound, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, Volkstedt porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1770 |
| Physical description | Figure of Diana with a hound, hard-paste porcelain. She is standing, right hand to her breast, bow in her left and quiver on her back with the black-spotted hound to her right. She wears a yellow-lined white robe sprigged in colours, with pink cloak fastened at the back and caught up at the waist; on her brow a greenish black crescent. Mounded 'grassy' irregular oval base painted in strong green. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mr W. A. J. Floersheim |
| Production | Previously attributed to Kelsterbach porcelain factory |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Christoph Fritzsche, Thüringer Porzellanfiguren des 18. Jarhunderts, in: Keramikfreunde der Schweiz, Nr. 116/117, 2003, S. 129, Nr. [134-1] und [134-2] |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.150-1931 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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