Figure
ca. 1750-1760 (made)
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Figure of a dog in glazed white soft-paste porcelain. Bloodhound in a squatting posture. Oblong base.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Glazed white soft-paste porcelain |
| Brief description | Figure of a dog in glazed white soft-paste porcelain, Charles Gouyn's factory, London, ca. 1750-1760. |
| Physical description | Figure of a dog in glazed white soft-paste porcelain. Bloodhound in a squatting posture. Oblong base. |
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| Credit line | Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support |
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| Bibliographic reference | Adams, Elizabeth. Chelsea Porcelain, The British Museum Press, 2001, 2nd. edition. Illustrated fig. 5.10, 61p. The caption reads: 'Figure of a Hound Bitch, St James's Factory. Pair to a Dog in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Height 11.5cm, circa 1750-59. In the main text: 'As human figures of the St James type are not anatomically exact, but rather stylized, so are the animal models. Their eyes bulge, and have indented pupils [fig. 5.10]; this feature is also to be found in the Chelsea pair of greyhound and retrieving setter of the Triangle period discussed by J.V.G. Mallet, as well as the single, smaller recumbent greyhound marked with the underglaze blue Crown and Trident, and a goat being milked by a putto, both in the Victoria and Albert Museum. J.V.G. Mallet feels that all these pieces may have been modelled by Sprimont himself.' |
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| Accession number | C.236-1921 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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