Plate with Coriolanus with Child and Three Women

Ceramic

-

Drexel Founding Collection

#169, Photographed by Mary Elizabeth Kulesa, 2024: Upper Surface

Name/Title

Plate with Coriolanus with Child and Three Women

Entry/Object ID

169

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Mrs. George W. Childs, Philadelphia

Notes

Date: 1911 Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. George W. Childs Source: Collection Count Diego Bouglie of Naples; Said to have belonged to Queen Carolina of Naples and Sicily, sister of Marie Antoinette

Made/Created

Artist

Royal Vienna Porcelain

Date made

1789

Place

City

Vienna

Country

Austria

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Height

1-3/8 in

Diameter

9-1/2 in

Height

3.49 cm

Diameter

24.13 cm

Material

Hard paste porcelain

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

Caius Marcius Coriolanus, the male figure in the center of the dish, was a legendary, Roman General who turned against Rome, and was portrayed in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus written in 1605-1608. Using literary references as inspiration gave the porcelain painters a chance to compose original images as opposed to copying old master paintings. Awards were given to artists of the Vienna Porcelain Factory for these original ideas and compositions.