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

Brush

ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Brush back of hard-paste porcelain painted in colours and gilded. Rounded diamond shape. The bristles are set in wood held inside the domed porcelain back by pins passing through holes in the porcelain into the sides of the wood. The cover is decorated with rococo scrolls and panels in relief, painted and gilded with details pierced right through. In the panel at the top are painted three soldiers dicing on a drum in a landscape. Figures of soldiers and women appear alternately in four narrow-radiating panels.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted in colours, pierced and gilded, with wood, metal pins and bristle
Brief description
Brush back of hard-paste porcelain painted in colours and gilded, probably painted by Andreas Philipp Oettner, Fürstenberg Porcelain, Fürstenberg, ca. 1760
Physical description
Brush back of hard-paste porcelain painted in colours and gilded. Rounded diamond shape. The bristles are set in wood held inside the domed porcelain back by pins passing through holes in the porcelain into the sides of the wood. The cover is decorated with rococo scrolls and panels in relief, painted and gilded with details pierced right through. In the panel at the top are painted three soldiers dicing on a drum in a landscape. Figures of soldiers and women appear alternately in four narrow-radiating panels.
Dimensions
  • Length: 11.1cm
Credit line
Given by Miss Cooper
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.194-1939

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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