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V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Ansbach Porcelain Factory (maker)
Place of origin	Ansbach (made)

Figure of Mercury in glazed hard-paste porcelain. Mercury, with winged feet, helmet and caduceus, stands by a heap of bundles, on the top of which are several letters. He wears a loin-cloth supported by a chain from his right shoulder.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Figure
Materials and techniques	Glazed hard-paste porcelain Hard Paste Porcelain Glazed
Brief description	Figure of Mercury in glazed hard-paste porcelain, Ansbach porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1760.
Physical description	Figure of Mercury in glazed hard-paste porcelain. Mercury, with winged feet, helmet and caduceus, stands by a heap of bundles, on the top of which are several letters. He wears a loin-cloth supported by a chain from his right shoulder.
Dimensions	Height: 24.1cm
Marks and inscriptions	Shield of the arms of Ansbach (Impressed) 'No. 6' (Incised)
Production	Previously attributed to Fulda and dated to ca. 1780.
Subjects depicted	Caduceus Mercury
Bibliographic references	Adolf Bayer, Ansbacher Porzellan, Braunschweig 1959, S. 23, Abb. 7. Christina H. Nelson with Letitia Roberts. The Warda Stevens Stout Collection, A History of Eighteenth-Century German Porcelain. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Hudson Hills Press, Easthampton and New York, 2013. Illustrated in the Ansbach section, fig. 3, 187p.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.48-1931

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O333995/figure-ansbach-porcelain-factory/

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