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Miranda
Figure of a young woman, seated an a rock, head turned to left, left arm across body, hair loose, and dress open at left breast, wreath of shells on cotton strip pendent from right wrist, right foot on a large conch shell. Sybject is Miranda, daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Minton model no 245, introduced in January 1850, and shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30154
Creation/Production
Minton and Hollins
Date: 1851
Acquisition
Gift, 15/12/1943
Given by Misses E.M., F.M. and E. Morgan
Measurements
Height
(cm): 38.2
Length
(cm): 15.3
Width
(cm): 14
Height
(in): 15
Length
(in): 6
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
Material
parian porcelain
Location
In store
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