Figure
ca. 1755 (made)
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Figure in soft-paste porcelain of a young boy drinking, allegorical of Taste, and seated astride a barrel with a wine-glass raised in his right hand and bottle in his left. Rocky base.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain |
| Brief description | Figure in soft-paste porcelain of a young boy drinking and seated astride a barrel with a wine-glass raised in his right hand, Bow Porcelain Factory, Bow, ca. 1755. |
| Physical description | Figure in soft-paste porcelain of a young boy drinking, allegorical of Taste, and seated astride a barrel with a wine-glass raised in his right hand and bottle in his left. Rocky base. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Herbert Allen |
| Object history | From a set of the Five Senses. Figure is similar to the figure of the Meissen group known as 'The German Bacchus', stated to have been the modelled by Schönheit in 1770. It seems probable that his Bacchus was based on an earlier model by Kändler from which the Bow and Plymouth figures may also have been borrowed. |
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| Accession number | C.168-1935 |
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| Record created | June 17, 2009 |
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