Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse)
Medium
unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit porcelain)
Dimensions
21.6 × 14 × 8 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Norweb Collection
Accession Number
1961.10.1
Tags
gender unknownmale
About this artwork
Although a few Vincennes porcelain figures exist which are glazed, the royal factory adopted at an early date the practice of producing unglazed, biscuit figures which, because of the purity of their material, resemble marble figurines. The fashion for biscuit figures first introduced at Vincennes quickly spread through Europe.