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

Figure

1736-1740 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a dancing peasant of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. He stands on his right foot leaning against a stump, his right knee is raised, he holds a full tankard in his right hand and his hat brim in his left. He is wearing a black hat with a red ribbon, a yellow jacket with lavender trim, black and gold traces, white skirt, red trousers and yellow rosettes, white stockings, black shoes, red rosettes, the base and stump are embellished with leaves and flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Figure of Dancing Peasant, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, modelled by J.J. Kändler, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, 1736-1740.
Physical description
Figure of a dancing peasant of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. He stands on his right foot leaning against a stump, his right knee is raised, he holds a full tankard in his right hand and his hat brim in his left. He is wearing a black hat with a red ribbon, a yellow jacket with lavender trim, black and gold traces, white skirt, red trousers and yellow rosettes, white stockings, black shoes, red rosettes, the base and stump are embellished with leaves and flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17cm
Marks and inscriptions
'P' (Painted in ink)
Credit line
Given by Mrs O. J. Finney in memory of Oswald James Finney
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Hackenbroch, Yvonne. Meissen and other continental porcelain, faience and enamel in the Irwin Untermyer collection. Cambridge, Published for the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harvard University Press, 1956, Fig. 91, Pl. 44.
  • Rückert, R. Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 München: Hirmer, 1966, Fig. 890, pp. 171, 217.
Collection
Accession number
C.25-1984

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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