The dancer
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1763
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
174 mm (Height); 68 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Meissen
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 870902
Summary
Meissen figure of a woman in a dancing attitude and dressed in a pale green sprigged dress, buff apron and a red and black bodice. She stands on a round scrolled gilt and flowered base.
Provenance
No documentary evidence of acquisition but by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1878-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and accepted with other more important contents in lieu of estate Duty by H.M. Treasury and transferred to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
Meissen Porcelain Factory, potter