Lady Dancing: C.3082A-1928

Titles

Lady Dancing

Maker(s)

Factory: Derby Porcelain Factory
Proprietor: Robert Bloor & Co.

Entities

• Figure

Categories

• Bone china

Description

Bone china, slip-cast, with applied details, painted in enamels and gilded

Bone china, slip cast, with applied net, glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, pale pink, dark rose pink, red, lilac, and black enamel, and gilt. The underside is unglazed except for a small area around the central circular ventilation hole. The base has a shaped edge decorated with scrolls and a rocaille shell motif at centre front. It rises up at the back into a very low tree stump which supports the figure. The woman stands with her right foot advanced, holding out both arms as if to hold up her dress. She has almost black hair drawn up into a bun on the crown of her head, and has grey eyebrows, blue eyes, pink cheeks and a red mouth. She has bracelets on both wrists and a cross on a necklace round her neck. She wears a lace cap, a chemise with elbow-length ruffled sleeves, an open robe with a lilac bodice and pink skirt semé with groups of four blue dots, and a yellow sack back semé with darker yellow dotted flower heads. The skirt has a border of applied net with a turquoise upper edge and a gold lower edge. Her petticoat has a yellow and lilac striped upper part, and a horizontal border of dark pink roses and foliage between bands of applied net, the lower one broader, and gilded. Her shoes are red with yellow pompoms on top. The tree stump is black, the top af the base, green, and the flowers on it, pink, yellow, and blue.The scrolls on the base are picked out in gold and the rocaille shell motif is partly pink.

Notes

History note: Given to Dr Glaisher by Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson at Bournemouith on 3 November 1916 (probably for his birthday on 5 November)

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century, Mid
Bloor Period
Production date: circa AD 1840 : Robert Bloor died 1846

School or Style

Rococo Revival