figure



figure

Summary

Public: Figure of a boy with a hat full of apples, soft paste porcelain, painted in underglaze cobalt blue and green, yellow, crimson, pink, orange, brown and iron red overglaze enamels and gilt. Private: Figure of a boy seated on green rocky base, dressed in dark underglaze blue jacket with orange lining and gilt detail and borders, pale pink waistcoat and yellow breeches, both patterned with green, crimson and gilt motifs. Black shoes and black hat upturned on his lap and filled with pale green/yellow apples and two bunches of grapes. Sitting with his left arm holding hat steady on his lap, right arm raised holding up single apple. Scrolling rococo base, picked out in gilt.


Object Name

figure

Date Created

c 1820=1830

accession number

1917.446

Place of creation

Derby

Medium

Credit

Leicester Collier Bequest

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