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figure(lioness)

Object Type: figure (lioness)
Museum number: 1990,0406.3
Description: Figure; porcelain, in the form of a striding lioness, 'Schreitende Löwin', glazed white.
Producer name: Designed by: Gerhard Marcks; Factory of: Schwarzburger Werkstätten für Porzellankunst
Production date: 1909-1910 (designed and made)
Production place: Factory in: Unterweissbach
Materials: porcelain
Technique: painted; glazed; moulded
Dimensions: Height: 23.50 centimetres; Length: 44 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See also Decorative Arts 1850-1950 Cat. no. 154 (1981.1203.1) and also 1990,0406.1-2. Text from J. Rudoe, 'Decorative Arts 1850-1950. A catalogue of the British Museum collection'. 2nd ed. no. 348 (appendix). For a full discussion of these figures see Decorative Arts 1850-1950, Cat. 346 (1990.0406.1)
Bibliographic references: Rudoe 1991a / Decorative Arts 1850-1950: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection. (348); Rudoe 1994 / Decorative Arts 1850-1950. A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection (348); Carey 1991 / Collecting the 20th Century (p.49)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: mammal
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Graham Dry
Acquisition date: 1990
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1990,0406.3
Conservation: Treatment: 28 Sep 1994