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

A Beggar

Figure
ca. 1745-ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a beggar, porcelain.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Beggar (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, glazed
Brief description
Porcelain figure of a beggar, probably Mennecy porcelain factory, France, about 1745-1760
Physical description
Figure of a beggar, porcelain.
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Production
Acquired as Saint-Cloud. Examined by Clare le Corbeiller 1990 and considered probably Mennecy on the grounds of paste, glaze and the existence of other Mennecy beggars. 1994 FPS: Aileen Dawson queried whether it was too static for Mennecy. In 1998 Bernard Rondot condsidered the figure probably Mennecy, adding that there is another with the DV mark. Aileen Dawson illustrates this piece in her Eighteenth-century French Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, 1996, no. 52, comparing it to a pair of figures of uncertain attribution.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.345-1909

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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