Figure
ca. 1749-1752 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Full length standing figure of a woman in sixteenth-century court dress
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels |
| Brief description | C |
| Physical description | Full length standing figure of a woman in sixteenth-century court dress |
| Dimensions |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A raised anchor Note picked out in purple |
| Object history | The figure is copied from a print engraved by Ravenet after François Boucher, Noble French Matron, Ancienne mode Françoise, which in turn is copied from a woodcut in a sixteenth century Venetian book on dress (Cesare Vecellio, Degli Habiti Antichi e Moderni di tutto il Mondo: di nuovo accresiuti di molte figure, published Venice, 1590). |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.13-1975 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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