Head of laughing child
On displayDetails
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Title
Head of laughing child
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Artist/maker
Chelsea Porcelain Factory (1745 - 1784) (manufacturer)Louis François Roubiliac (1702 or 1705 - 1762) (sculptor) -
Associated place
London (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1752 -
Material and technique
porcelain (frit paste), glazed and enamelled
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 cm (height)
11.9 cm (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by C.A. de Costa Andrade, (Mr Cyril Andrade), in honour of Sir Winston Churchill, 1965.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 52 | 18th-century Art -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1965.8
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Glossary of terms
porcelain
Further reading
Gardner, Bellamy, ‘Sophie Roubiliac in Chelsea porcelain’, Connoisseur 1938, (1938), illus. p. 59
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), no. 457
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