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Chinese Musicians
Artist: Chelsea Porcelain Factory
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date: circa 1755
Materials: porcelain
Dimensions: 35.7cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,000 (Total: £12,481; tax remission)
Vendor: Trustees of R C H Sloane-Stanley
Review number: 2530 (1974)
Provenance:
By descent in the Sloane-Stanely family.
Description:
Presumably designed as a centrepiece which reveals pleasing views from any angle, this enhancing work contains a central opening, probably to take some form of lighting device. It was made at the Chelsea Factory and it is believed to be modelled as an original composition by Joseph Willems (1716-1766), the Flemish sculptor. Capitalising on the 18th century vogue for chinoiserie, the work depicts a seated Chinese youth and two Chinese women making music while a standing boy dances. Playing a flute, tambourine and bells the figures appear transported by their music-making.
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