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Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings: C.31A-1932

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Titles

Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings

Maker(s)

Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory

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Description

Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in enamels.

Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellowish-green, bluish-green, yellow, pink, dark puce, pale orange-red, grey, and a little black enamels. The slightly concave underside is glazed except for the outer edge, and has a central ventilation hole, which rises up into the tree. The roughly quatrefoil base has a sloping gadrooned edge. In the centre there is a tree trunk with two main branches and several smaller ones bearing polychrome applied flowers and leaves forming bocage. Between the two main branches at the top there is an oval hole to take a candle branch. At the back a branch curves downward from the trunk to the base to form a handle, which has a horizontal pansy on the top to serve as a thumbpiece. On a ledge at the front of the trunk there is a nest containing three yellow chicks. The parent buntings perch on top of the two main branches, looking down protectively towards the nest. They have pale yellow, pink, and grey plumage, pink or yellow legs, and pink beaks. On the viewer's left of the base there is a recumbent black and white dog with a yellow collar, who looks up into the tree. The gadrooned edge is picked out in pink and dark puce. A pair with C.3e1B-1932

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth

Legal notes

Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

Measurements and weight

Height: 16.1 cm
Width: 15.5 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Stratford-le-Bow ⪼ Essex ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs

Dating

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

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, yellowish-green, bluish-green, yellow, pink, dark puce, pale orange-red, grey, and a little black)
Details

Materials used in production

presumed lead Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in enamels
Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: circular printed in reserve in a black band and inscribed in the centre in ink

  • Text: 'FRANCES L. DICKSON' printed and 'FROM/MISS/SMITH/Pair' in ink
  • Location: On the base
  • Method of creation: Printed in black and hand-written in ink
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.31A-1932
Primary reference Number: 41789
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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