A Beggar
Figure
ca. 1780-ca. 1785 (made)
ca. 1780-ca. 1785 (made)
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Unglazed biscuit porcelain figure, a beggar wearing a hat and standing with hands outstretched on an integral, circular plinth.
Object details
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| Title | A Beggar (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste biscuit porcelain |
| Brief description | Figure of a beggar in white biscuit porcelain, by Niderviller pottery and porcelain factory, France, ca. 1780-ca. 1785. |
| Physical description | Unglazed biscuit porcelain figure, a beggar wearing a hat and standing with hands outstretched on an integral, circular plinth. |
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| Credit line | Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support |
| Production | W. B. Honey, French Porcelain (1950 and 1972), pl. 91B, where dated to ca. 1765-75 and where it is suggested that the model was perhaps by Paul-Louis Cyfflé; however, the object was labelled as 'c. 1785' and Aileen Dawson, Eighteenth-century French porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, 1996, cat. 219, illustrates a similarly marked biscuit figure, which she dates to ca. 1780. |
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| Accession number | C.436-1918 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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