- Object name(s):
- Figure
- Brief description:
- Chinese figure with a flower holder in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Base moulded with foliate rococo scrolls picked out in gold with applied flowers and painted foliage.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Ceramics
- Associated concept:
- Porcelain
- Content - concept:
- man
- Content - concept:
- scrolls
- Content - concept:
- flowers
- Content - concept:
- foliated
- Credit line:
- Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006BJ9124/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 17.4
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 13.5
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 9.7
- Inscription content:
- An anchor
- Inscription interpretation:
- In gold
- Material:
- soft paste porcelain
- Material:
- enamel
- Object name:
- Figure
- Object number:
- C.695-1925
- Object production date:
- ca. 1758
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1753-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1762-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Chelsea Porcelain factory
- Organisation's association:
- manufacturer
- Object production person:
- Willems, Joseph
- Person's association:
- modeller
- Object production place:
- Chelsea
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Chinese figure with a flower holder in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Base moulded with foliate rococo scrolls picked out in gold with applied flowers and painted foliage.
- Reproduction number:
- 2006BJ9124
- Reproduction number:
- 2017JV7971
- Responsible department/section:
- CER
- Style:
- Chinoiserie
- Technique:
- glazed
- Technique:
- painted
- Technique:
- moulded
- Technique:
- pierced
- Technique:
- Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded, pierced and gilded
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Chinese figure with flower holder. Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels. Chelsea; about 1758.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Yoshida, Kneji and Durrans, Brians (eds), Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe, Osaka : Asahi Shimbun, 2008
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Brunel, George, et al, Pagodes et Dragons: Exotisme et Fantaisie dans l'Europe Rococo, 1720-1770 (Association Paris-Musées: Musée Cernuschi: Paris, 2007)
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- 236
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/40c16233-117a-310a-a7d6-dbba47eea721
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/40c16233-117a-310a-a7d6-dbba47eea721, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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