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Dancing Girl, one of the 'New Dancers'
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Dancing Girl, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Dancing Girl, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, and painted overglaze in blue, bluish-green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, puce-pink, red, purple, pale brown, and gilt. The concave underside is glazed and has a circular ventilation hole below the figure. The square base has four scroll feet and rises up into a low tree stump with lateral branches bearing applied leaves and flowers. The girl stands on her left leg with her right leg advanced, holding both her arms out in front of her. She wears an orange hat with a pink underside, and a brown feather attached to the turned back brim at the front. She wears a white blouse, a green bodice with orange triangle-patterned stomacher, a green and yellow striped skirt at the back, and a white petticoat with a floral border. Her apron is decorated with a gold floral spray, a pink dotted border, and a red edge, and has a blue lining. Her blue shoes have a green flower on top. In front of here there are five red and white flowers. The flowers on the tree are blue or pink and white. The scrolls on the base are picked out in gold.
Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas
Height: 18.2 cm
Width: 11.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Byas, Cecil E.
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, bluish-green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, puce-pink, red, purple, pale brown)
lead-glaze
( presumed lead)
gold
Details
presumed phosphatic Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded with hand-modelled details, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: EC.11B-1938
Primary reference Number: 42048
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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