figure
- Museum number
- 1923,0314.36.CR
- Description
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Figure; porcelain; putto as grape-picker with adze and basket full of grapes and vine; painted in colours and gilded; wears tricorn-hat in black, blue jacket and yellow pants; base with flower and leaves in applied relief and scroll pattern in gilding; marked; bottom part of adze missing.
- Production date
- 1749-64 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.20 centimetres
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Length: 3.25 centimetres (base;max)
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- Curator's comments
- This figure is associated with viticulture, he carries a basket with grape bunches and an axe or adze, perhaps for making wine barrels, is from the 'Cupids in Disguises' series. These small figures were also known as 'Verkleideten Amoretten', or ‘costumed cupids’. About eighty of these figures were modeled by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706-1775) in the 1750s and remodeled by Michel Victor Acier (1736- 1799) after the Seven Years War in 1764. They represent many of the trades and commercial activities prominent in the 18th century, and explore themes of the Italian Comedy characters, allegorical and emblematic subjects often after larger scale figures. They are usually, but not always, identified by the presence of wings on their backs, as here.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1923
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1923,0314.36.CR