15929608110001312637261000Standard Recordobject-41462170249434467613361393290001702494121150fitz-onlineadlib-object-41462https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41462211058bd-bc60-32d6-ac57-385b2c1c87194personreferenceagent-149882adlib-agent-1498827e8a7980-d55c-3efa-af00-898345039315girlreferenceterm-37637adlib-term-3763789b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecbsoft-paste porcelainreferenceterm-113183adlib-term-113183d0b2833e-0e65-3606-934e-193dc9d8511dRalph Griffinreferenceterm-107563adlib-term-10756338dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ffenamelsDecorationoverglaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamelsreferenceterm-120086adlib-term-120086cdecca31-5ec3-3fe3-9e5d-455d9771fda5painting overglazereferenceterm-102639adlib-term-1026392c240716-c1bb-36c4-9594-b0a98f1208c2allegoryApplied ArtsSoft-paste porcelain, containing bone ash, flower girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels.Soft-paste porcelain, containing bone ash, flower girl, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamels. The unglazed underside of the roughly oval base has a glazed ventilation hole at the back. The figure is supported by a tree stump which has a square hole to take an attachment. The girl stands barefooted with her right foot slightly forward, and her head turned to her left. She holds a basket of flowers in her left hand in front of her and with her right holds up her apron, also filled with flowers. She has brown hair on which is a black ribbon at the back and a small bunch of flowers at the front. She wears a black ribbon with a four-petalled black flower round her neck, a blue bodice with white sleeves and blue bows at the elbows. The back of her skirt is yellow with a black border round the hem, and the front is white strewn with puce flowers, over which she has a white apron. The top of the base is decorated with two applied flowers, each with three leaves, and slight puce scrolls round the front edge.C.6-19181accession numberC.6-191841462priref41462urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41462https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41462referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumGiven by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSAreferenceagent-151196adlib-agent-15119670c394ca-7483-3017-9867-b0191829b8bfGriffin, Ralph, MA, FSA191819181918givenEntry date: 1918-08-2817651765circa1765factoryreferenceagent-157665adlib-agent-157665b68c5501-4b5f-39e8-8048-c9b58de684e3Bow Porcelain ManufactoryThis figure was modelled after a Meissen flower girl by J.J. Kaendler and Peter Reinickereferenceterm-106496adlib-term-106496bd563695-7339-3178-a8c4-25189907099318th Century, Mid#referenceterm-107437adlib-term-10743796f4b0d1-fc11-39ff-ae91-1b23d888d479George IIIreferenceterm-110490adlib-term-110490bb9026c5-22c6-3c07-8c4c-b6817acc50c4literalEnglandEnglandcountryliteralEssexEssexregionStratford-le-Bowpresumed leadreferenceterm-107733adlib-term-10773300160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4lead-glazepresumed phosphaticreferenceterm-37637adlib-term-3763789b09133-dc0a-3a88-bd40-5aef1ad30ecbsoft-paste porcelainHeightcm14.8Widthcm8.7referenceterm-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figurehistory noteunknown before donorreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumCf. pp. 106-7, no. 30, an example of the Meissen flower girl by J.J. Kaendler and Peter Reinicke at Waddesdon Manor, which is 13.3 cm high, from which the Bow model was derived.pp. 106-7referencepublication-2759adlib-publication-2759ae9e99cf-53c2-3e9a-b7d6-04c402f13820The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Meissen and other European PorcelainRef. The use of figures as supports for candle branches is documented in an advertisement placed by 'William Shaw, Branch-Maker, in Swallow-street, the Corner of Back-street, near new Burlington Street', in the Public Advertiser on 17 May 1753. He stated that he 'makes and sells all Sorts of Girandoles and Branches for Chimney Pieces, Cabinets, Brackets, and Desserts, in the newest Taste, of various Shapes and Sizes, curiously ornamented with Flowers, Birds, Figures, &c. and Ladies that have Figures of their own, may have Branches or Brackets fitted to them, or old Branches repaired.',p. 129referencepublication-200000883adlib-publication-20000088323ca22a2-e688-3bb5-b06c-b871c7e28ca3Extracts from Eighteenth Century London NewspapersRef. See pl. XXXV, the Meissen model of the 'Flower Girl', and p. 123 the print after a drawing of two flower girls by Francois Boucher (1703-70), from which it was derived.p. 123referencepublication-2760adlib-publication-27602662c952-5c39-3d83-9829-41a2b26f2278Meissen Portrait FiguresRef. This type of figure was popular as garden sculpture. See p. 93, lot 176, a large terracotta (h. 114 cm) of a girl holding out her apron to gather fruit into it, from the Chateau Polisy, Champagne, illustrates the type.p. 93referencepublication-2160adlib-publication-216052138ffc-1737-3831-b93b-ef8fcd36187cEuropean Sculpture and Works of ArtRef. This is model B72 in Peter Bradshaw's list of Bow figures, see p. 108, and p. 174, B72
Cf. p. 139, pl. 130; the companion Vendangeur, pl. 129pp. 108, 174referencepublication-2758adlib-publication-2758aae1cefe-a8f4-3d0e-b8c5-0b213fcd157bBow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774referenceterm-9010adlib-term-9010ecd03def-5d2a-3b43-bb92-76be16fbabf6Rocococonceptreferenceterm-2510adlib-term-2510d96b18e6-d9cc-3caf-97e8-3820f2ee5acdspringliteralspringspringreferenceterm-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figurefiguresoft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellow, green, flesh-pink, puce, red, brown, and black enamelsin sectionsreferenceterm-120085adlib-term-12008568c62b7c-aaf4-38a5-a1be-4d6c615c0714press-mouldingexcept for undersidereferenceterm-120062adlib-term-120062d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206lead-glazingFlower-girl, perhaps representing Springobject
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