Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Titles
Shepherdess
Maker(s)
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain figure of a Shepherdess, painted in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted overglaze in blue, pale green, green, turquoise, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, pale brown, and dark grey enamels. The closed base is unglazed and has a circular ventilation hole near the back. The roughly circular base rises up on the proper left side into a rock with a square aperture at the back to take an attachment, beside which is a projecting branch bearing an applied flower and three leaves.
The shepherdess stands on her right leg with her left foot raised onto the rock at the front. She turns her head to her left, holds her right hand up to her bosom, and with her left holds up her apron. She has a white cloth scattered with brown stars over her head, and a dark brown necklace. She wears a flowered bodice with a scalloped basque, a trellis pattern stomacher, pink cuffs with blue bows, and white ruffles; a flowered skirt, with a white apron, which is filled with flowers; and yellow shoes with blue bows. A small bag is slung on her right hip by means of a blue cross strap. A pale yellow and brown lamb reclines on her right looking away from her. The top of the base, the rock, and the tree branch are pale green and brown, the three applied flowers are red, with darker green leaves. The scrolls on the sides are picked out in dark grey.
Notes
History note: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased with its pair for £60 on 22 January 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 27.0 cm
Width: 11.5 cm
Relative size of this object
Place(s) associated
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Stratford-le-Bow
⪼ Essex
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
Mid-18th Century
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1757
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, pale green, green, turquoise, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, pale brown, and dark grey)
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 overglaze in blue, pale green, green, turquoise, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, pale brown, and dark grey enamels
Lead-glazing
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.3054B-1928
Primary reference Number: 41621
Old object number: 4492B
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Friday 20 November 2015
Last processed: Tuesday 14 February 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
