Female Sphinx: C.24-1973

Titles

Female Sphinx
Translated as: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of a Female Sphinx, press-moulded, and glazed.

Maker(s)

Bow Porcelain Manufactory (Factory)

Description

Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash (presumed), figure of a Female Sphinx, press-moulded, and lead-glazed. The sphinx is supported on a high, sloping, rococo scrollwork base. It is in profile to left with the head turned to the viewer. It has the body of a lion, and its tail passes under the left hindquarter and arches over the right side of its back. It has the head of a vivacious woman, wearing a cap with frilled lappets, earrings, and a necklace; a bare bosom, and lion's paws projecting from laced cuffs with bobble edging, below which are suspended two large tassels. On its back is has a saddle decorated with small incised strokes, and with two small tassels (one missing) hanging from the rear side.

Notes

History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Hugh Statham died. 1967; Mrs Margaret Statham died 1970.

Legal notes

Purchased with the L.D. Cunliffe Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Measurements and weight

Height: 12.0 cm
Length: 12.0 cm

Relative size of this object

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Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.