Flower-girl, perhaps representing Spring: C.6-1918

Titles

Flower-girl, perhaps representing Spring

Maker(s)

Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain, containing bone ash, flower girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels.

Soft-paste porcelain, containing bone ash, flower girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels. The unglazed underside of the roughly oval base has a glazed ventilation hole at the back. The figure is supported by a tree stump which has a square hole to take an attachment. The girl stands barefooted with her right foot slightly forward, and her head turned to her left. She holds a basket of flowers in her left hand in front of her and with her right holds up her apron, also filled with flowers. She has brown hair on which is a black ribbon at the back and a small bunch of flowers at the front. She wears a black ribbon with a four-petalled black flower round her neck, a blue bodice with white sleeves and blue bows at the elbows. The back of her skirt is yellow with a black border round the hem, and the front is white strewn with puce flowers, over which she has a white apron. The top of the base is decorated with two applied flowers, each with three leaves, and slight puce scrolls round the front edge.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor

Legal notes

Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA

Place(s) associated

• Stratford-le-Bow ⪼ Essex ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA

Dating

18th Century, Mid#
George III
Production date: circa AD 1765

Note

This figure was modelled after a Meissen flower girl by J.J. Kaendler and Peter Reinicke

School or Style

Rococo