Untitled
Niderviller
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1780
Materials
Ceramics, hard paste biscuit porcelain
Measurements
152 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Moselle
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730482
Summary
Figure group, hard paste biscuit porcelain, possibly Niderviller, Moselle, France, circa 1780. A girl and a boy play on a see-saw fashioned from a piece of masonry with an egg and dart pattern. Unmarked.
Provenance
Listed in the ‘Inventory of Heirlooms at Stourhead directed to be taken by the Will of the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart.’, 1838, in the China Cupboard, as one of ‘Seventeen small ornamental French China Figures’. Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
Niderviller, manufacturer