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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Bow Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
London (made)

Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, oval shape with a wavy rim, and transfer-printed in purplish-black enamel with 'Le Bosquet de Bacchus' after an engraving by Charles-Nicolas Cochin Père, comprising a group of figures comprising of five figures of ladies and gallants beside a tree, of which three are reclining and two are standing


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in enamels
Porcelain
Transfer-Printed
Brief description
Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, oval shape with a wavy rim, and transfer-printed with enamels over the glaze with a group of figures, made by Bow Porcelain Factory, London, ca. 1760
Physical description
Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, oval shape with a wavy rim, and transfer-printed in purplish-black enamel with 'Le Bosquet de Bacchus' after an engraving by Charles-Nicolas Cochin Père, comprising a group of figures comprising of five figures of ladies and gallants beside a tree, of which three are reclining and two are standing
Dimensions
  • Length: 20cm
  • Width: 16.5cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
The group of figures are copied from a composition of Watteau, engraved by Charles Nicholas Cochin père, entitled 'Le Bosquet de Bacchus'.

Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mortlock, London, for £1 10 shillings in July 1880
Subjects depicted
Women
Men
Cochin, Charles-Nicolas I the Elder
Bibliographic references
  • Watney, B. Notes on Bow Transfer Printing. English Ceramic Circle Transactions. 1972, vol. 8, part 2.
  • Guy-Jones, Gordon & Sue. Bow Porcelain, On-glaze Prints and their Sources. English Ceramics Circle, 2013. Illustrated no. 14A. The souce engraving by Cochin père of 1727 after a lost painting by Antoine Watteau is 14B.
Other number
Sch. I 112 - Schreiber number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
414:59-1885

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Record createdDecember 12, 2008
Record URL
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