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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Figure

ca. 1752-1753 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The Bow factory in east London specialised in smartly decorated porcelain tablewares. In the mid 1700s they also produced figures. The appealing and rather naive style of the anonymous 'Muses Modeller' is easily recognisable.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure of the Muse Polyhymnia, soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, Bow, about 1752-1753
Physical description
Figure of the Muse Polyhymnia, soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels
Marks and inscriptions
'Polimnie'
Credit line
Given by Mr and Mrs Donald MacAlister
Production
Modelled by the 'Muses Modeller'
Summary
The Bow factory in east London specialised in smartly decorated porcelain tablewares. In the mid 1700s they also produced figures. The appealing and rather naive style of the anonymous 'Muses Modeller' is easily recognisable.
Bibliographic references
  • Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X
  • Bradshaw, Peter. Bow Porcelain Figures, circa 1748-1774. 1992, fig. 23
Collection
Accession number
C.63-1927

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Record createdNovember 28, 2002
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