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Figure
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Figure
- Place of origin:
Bow (made)
- Date:
ca. 1765 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Bow Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, pierced and gilded
- Credit Line:
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
- Museum number:
C.657-1925
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 2, shelf 4
Physical description
Figure of a girl, representing Spring, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. She stands with a basket of blue flowers over her right hand. She wears a pink jacket trimmed with gold, a flowered skirt raised by her left hand, red shoes and yellow hat with red band. Circular base with applied flowers and leaves on a rococo scrolled and pierced pedestal, picked out in green and gold.
Place of Origin
Bow (made)
Date
ca. 1765 (made)
Artist/maker
Bow Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, pierced and gilded
Marks and inscriptions
An anchor and dagger
In red
Dimensions
Height: 17.1 cm
Object history note
For an earlier version of this figure, see C.656-1925
Descriptive line
Figure of a girl, representing Spring, in soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Bow Porcelain Factory, Bow, ca. 1765.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Bradshaw, Peter. Bow Porcelain Figures, circa 1748-1774. 1992, fig. 128
Materials
Soft paste porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Pierced; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Leaves; Flowers; Girl; Scroll; Basket; Spring
Categories
Ceramics; Porcelain
Collection
Ceramics Collection
