Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings
Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, Bocage Candlestick with two nesting Buntings, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in blue, yellowish-green, bluish-green, yellow, pink, dark puce, red, grey, and a little black enamels. The slightly concave underside is glazed except for the outer edge, and has a central ventilation hole filled with a brown substance. The roughly quatrefoil base has a sloping gadrooned edge. In the centre there is a tree trunk with two main branches and several smaller ones bearing polychrome applied flowers and leaves forming bocage. Between the two main branches at the top there is an oval hole to take a candle branch. At the back a branch curves downward from the trunk to the base to form a handle, which has a horizontal pansy on the top to serve as a thumbpiece. On a ledge at the front of the trunk there is a nest containing three yellow chicks. The parent buntings perch on top of the two main branches, looking down protectively towards the nest. They have pale yellow and grey plumage and pink legs and beaks. On the viewer's left of the base there is a recumbent black and white dog with a dark puce collar, which looks up into the tree. The gadrooned edge is picked out in pink and dark puce. A pair with C.31A-1932
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 16.2 cm
Width: 15.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, yellowish-green, bluish-green, yellow, pink, dark puce, red, grey, and a little black)
Details
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, with hand-modelled details, painted over lead-glaze in enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.31B-1932
Primary reference Number: 41832
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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