FIGURINE OF A MANDOLIN PLAYER, ONE OF TWO
Creator(s): Derby Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)
On view in: Marjorie Post's Bedroom Hall
About this object
The statuette shows a young woman seated on a mottled dark brown and green tree stump. She is playing a brown mandolin. There is a white sheep with orange spots at the left. She wears a pale turban headdress with three plumes, a white blouse, a sleeveless pale yellow jacket with a white peplum, a white skirt decorated with blue dots, flowers and gold leaves, and black shoes. There are two leafy branches with white trumpet flowers extending from behind her. She sits on a white base decorated with rococo scrolls touched with gold and with openwork on four feet.
- Object name:
- FIGURINE OF A MANDOLIN PLAYER, ONE OF TWO
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Derby, England
- Date made:
- 1772-1795
- Size:
- 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 26.122.2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK underneath: N 301 (impressed), *, TUT (impressed)
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973