Figural Sweetmeat Dish
ca. 1760 (made)
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Figural sweetmeat dish, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, formed as a woman in 'Turkish' dress; she holds with outstretched arms a large scallop-shell painted with sprays of flowers, and is seated on a rock attached with small shells; she wears a high-pointed purple hood, a long-figured yellow dress with a white short-sleeved cloak over it, purple drawers and red shoes
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Figural sweetmeat dish, of soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, formed as a woman in 'Turkish' dress holding a shell, Bow Porcelain Factory, London, ca. 1760. |
| Physical description | Figural sweetmeat dish, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, formed as a woman in 'Turkish' dress; she holds with outstretched arms a large scallop-shell painted with sprays of flowers, and is seated on a rock attached with small shells; she wears a high-pointed purple hood, a long-figured yellow dress with a white short-sleeved cloak over it, purple drawers and red shoes |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from H.N. Texeira, Oporto, for £3 in November 1875. Acquired as Chelsea porcelain. This Bow model is derived from one made by Chelsea or from the latter's Meissen prototype, which was probably modelled by J. F. Eberlein in 1746. Among the invoices submitted to the Bow factory in 1759-60 for enamelling carried out by Richard Dyer 'at Mr Bolton's, Enameller near the Church, Lambeth' are some that mention 'Turk salts', but such figures are likely to have been used for sweetmeats also. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Young, Hilary. English Porcelain, 1745-95: Its Makers, Design, Marketing and Consumption. Victoria and Albert Museum Studies in the History of Art and Design, 1999, pl. XXII |
| Other number | Sch. I 50 - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:188-1885 |
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| Record created | December 5, 2008 |
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