Bow Porcelain Tawny Owl

An image of Animal figure. Tawny Owl. Bow Porcelain Manufactory, Essex, Stratford-le-Bow. The deep convex underside is glazed and does not have a ventilation hole. The roughly circular, rounded conical base has vertical ridges to resemble the bark on a tree stump, and has three applied flowers and leaves at the front. On the viewer's right it has a projecting broken off branch. The owl perches on the stump with his left foot on the branch, looking straight ahead. There is a large circular ventilation hole in the back of the top of its head. The plumage is mainly white with brown and very pale yellow feathers here and there, and circles of brown feathers round both eyes, which are brown with black pupils. Its beak is yellow, and its feet are yellow with brown short lines overall, and black claws. One flower is dark pink with a yellow centre, and the other two are blue. The leaves are green and there are spaced green splodges on the base. Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, with visible mould mark running down the sides and over the head, and with hand-modelled details, painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. Height, whole, 20.0 cm, depth, whole, 13.6 cm, circa 1755-1760. Rococo.

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Animal figure. Tawny Owl. Bow Porcelain Manufactory, Essex, Stratford-le-Bow. The deep convex underside is glazed and does not have a ventilation hole. The roughly circular, rounded conical base has vertical ridges to resemble the bark on a tree stump, and has three applied flowers and leaves at the front. On the viewer's right it has a projecting broken off branch. The owl perches on the stump with his left foot on the branch, looking straight ahead. There is a large circular ventilation hole in the back of the top of its head. The plumage is mainly white with brown and very pale yellow feathers here and there, and circles of brown feathers round both eyes, which are brown with black pupils. Its beak is yellow, and its feet are yellow with brown short lines overall, and black claws. One flower is dark pink with a yellow centre, and the other two are blue. The leaves are green and there are spaced green splodges on the base. Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, with visible mould mark running down the sides and over the head, and with hand-modelled details, painted overglaze in polychrome enamels. Height, whole, 20.0 cm, depth, whole, 13.6 cm, circa 1755-1760. Rococo.

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Accession Number: C.59-1932
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 381.58kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2010:11:07 00:11:01

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18th Century animal figure birds Bow Porcelain Factory ceramics Early Rococo enamel enamelled English feathers figure Fitz_AA Georgian glazed moulded owls perched plumage polychrome porcelain press moulded Rococo soft-paste porcelain tawny owl

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