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Details
- Date
- circa 1765
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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39.0 x 15.0 x 15.0 cm
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a - Urania, 29.9 x 14.3 x 13.9 cm
b - base, 10.6 x 15 x 15 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2012.108.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Chelsea
Works in the collection
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About
Urania is the muse of astronomy and hence holds a celestial globe. The figure is from a set of nine muses modelled by Joseph Willems. Two full sets are known, one in the Bearsted collection at Upton House, Warwickshire. ‘A most magnificent Set of Muses on ornamented pedestals of the Chelsea porcelain’ was offered for sale by the jewellers Norris and Shepherd of Cornhill, London, in an advertisement run by the Daily Advertiser on 13 April 1761.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 58 (colour illus.). cat.no. 70
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