Mother and child group
Derby Porcelain Manufactory
1750–55 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The adult figure holding a flower is a personification of "smelling" from a set representing the five Senses -hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching. The white porcelain was probably enameled in London.
- Artist
- Derby Porcelain Manufactory
- Date
- 1750–55
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- British, Derby
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1951
