Shepherdess: C.3057-1928

Titles

Shepherdess

Maker(s)

Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Porcelain
• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Figure. Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, dark puce, and brown enamels, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed and has a large circular ventilation hole in the centre. The rounded rectangular base has five scroll feet and a pierced rocaille motif between the front two. It rises up at the back into a rock with a square aperture to take an attachment at the bottom. On the viewer's left there is a lateral branch bearing applied flowers and leaves, and on the right, a much shorter branch.
The shepherdess stands on her right leg with her left stepping forward onto a rock. She turns to her left, holding up her flower-filled apron in her left hand, and in her right holds a posy of flowers to her bosom. She has long brown hair with a turquoise, purple, and yellow striped cloth over it, and round her neck has a gold necklace. She wears a dark puce bodice with an orange and gold triangle-patterned stomacher, orange and turquoise striped cuffs, and white ruffles; an orange and turquoise striped skirt, and a yellow petticoat with orange flowers and gold foliage in reserves with turquoise outlines. Her shoes are dark puce with a turquoise flower on top of each. A small piebald skin bag is slung on her right hip by means of a cross strap. On the ground on the viewer's left there is a recumbent pale orange and white lamb. The flowers on the base and elsewhere are of various colours.

Notes

History note: Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 5 March 1919 with C.3058-1928 for £95 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J.W.L.

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
George III
Circa 1765 CE - 1770 CE

Note

The Bow Porcelain Manufactory was at Stratford-le-Bow, (Essex), London

School or Style

Rococo