Figure
ca.1758-ca.1765 (made)
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Dessert table ornament in the form of a figure of a woman holding a basket for sweetmeats at her waist (height 17.2 cm). She stands upright with her right foot forward and twisting slightly to her left and has a baby at her shoulder and held by a wrap across her shoulders. She wears a pinkish purple jacket, brocaded dress and patterned headscarf. She leans against a tree stump with applied flowers and leaves picked out in enamel colours, and stands on a circular base similarly ornamented and with rococo scrollwork picked out in gold. The glaze is thick and glassy.
Marks: an anchor in gold painted on the tree-stump, and ‘R’ impressed inside base
The base has a paper label inscribed ‘979’ (stock number of the dealer Charles E. Boast of Hove).
Marks: an anchor in gold painted on the tree-stump, and ‘R’ impressed inside base
The base has a paper label inscribed ‘979’ (stock number of the dealer Charles E. Boast of Hove).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, probably slip-cast, lead-glazed and painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Figure of a sweetmeat woman with a basket, soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, Chelsea (gold anchor mark), about 1758-65 |
| Physical description | Dessert table ornament in the form of a figure of a woman holding a basket for sweetmeats at her waist (height 17.2 cm). She stands upright with her right foot forward and twisting slightly to her left and has a baby at her shoulder and held by a wrap across her shoulders. She wears a pinkish purple jacket, brocaded dress and patterned headscarf. She leans against a tree stump with applied flowers and leaves picked out in enamel colours, and stands on a circular base similarly ornamented and with rococo scrollwork picked out in gold. The glaze is thick and glassy. Marks: an anchor in gold painted on the tree-stump, and ‘R’ impressed inside base The base has a paper label inscribed ‘979’ (stock number of the dealer Charles E. Boast of Hove). |
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| Credit line | Given by Miss Mary Boast from the collection of Charles E. Boast |
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| Accession number | C.16-2004 |
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| Record created | April 22, 2004 |
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