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Dog
Factory: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a dog, painted with light reddish-brown and black enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded and hand-modelled, and painted with light reddish-brown and black enamels. Small, long-haired dog with a short snout, large eyes, and a long tail curved over its back. Its hair is coloured light reddish-brown and the eyes and nose are black. It sits on a rectangular, lightly carved base, which is hollow underneath with a supporting horizontal strut about a third of the way along from the hindquarters of the dog
History note: Purchased from Alfred Spero, London for £50 before October 1948 by Louis C.G. Clarke, Leckhampton, Cambridge.
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Height: 18.1 cm
Length: 26.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-05-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century, Mid#
Louis XV
Circa
1751
CE
-
1757
CE
The mid-18th century fashion for porcelain figures of dogs emanated from Meissen where J.J. Kaendler had modelled pugs and other breeds during the 1740s. They were probably being made at Vincennes by 1750, as by October, 1752, when a general inventory was taken, 259 dogs were in stock. The solid construction, speckly glaze and firing cracks in the Fitzwilliam's model and the few others known, suggest a date in the early 1750s. No moulds have survived for this model, nor does the factory's register of sales in the 1750s mention any dogs in sufficient detail to enable any of them to be matched with it. At least three other examples are recorded, all white.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( reddish-light brown and black)
Base
Width 14 cm
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted with light reddish-brown and black enamels.
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: large size with the lower part of the B only slightly impressed into the clay
Accession number: C.5-1961
Primary reference Number: 82575
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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