Figure
Niderviller
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1780
Materials
Ceramics, hard paste biscuit porcelain
Measurements
321 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Moselle
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730490
Summary
Figure group, hard paste biscuit porcelain, Niderviller, Moselle, France, circa 1780. Five cupids play around a column on a mound. Unmarked.
Provenance
Listed in the 1902 Inventory in the Picture Gallery as one of '16 cupids and rustic figures in chalk [crossed out] biscuit [in script] on Table, 4 5in,; 7 6 in.; 3 7 in.; 1 13 in.; 1 19 in.’ Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
Niderviller, manufacturer