Two Birds perhaps Finches, perched in a Tree
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Figure. Soft-paste porcelain slip-cast and lead-glazed. The underside has a depression in the centre and some glaze, and a large circular ventilation hole, which has been plugged, possibly with felt. The wavy-edged base has a central tree trunk with a short curved branch at the front and two branches at the top, on each of which there is a bird. Low down in the back of the trunk there is a circular hole to take an attachment and a small hole between the branches at the top. The tree trunk is bedecked with flowers and foliage. A hound sits on the left of the tree. On the base at the back there are two separate flowers and leaves, and one flower and leaves by the hound's feet.
History note: Unknown
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 13.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Bow Porcelain Manufactory; Stratford-le-Bow, (Essex), London
Base Width 12.8 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain slip-cast and lead-glazed
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3064B-1928
Primary reference Number: 41744
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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