Parian (porcelain)

Scope note

Use for a variety of soft or hard paste, white, fine, vitreous porcelain often resembling statuary marble, developed in England in the 1840s and used for figurines, especially dolls, and for art objects, ornament, and tableware. For unglazed porcelain or earthenware that has been fired only once and used for similar types of objects, but producing a grainy texture, use "biscuit."

This term has 381 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Material
Object category
Object name

Getty AAT term number

3000219039

Broader Terms used

Term used for

parian porcelain
parian ware
porcelain, parian
porcelain, statuary
statuary porcelain

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Bust

Summer

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Malempré, Louis-Auguste

An image of Figure

Summer on fluted column

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Malempré, Louis-Auguste

An image of Bust

Autumn

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Hale, Owen

An image of Bust

The Mother

Maker(s)

Sculptor: Monti, Raffaelle

An image of Bust

Winter

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Hale, Owen

An image of Bust

Winter?

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Hale, Owen

Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Robinson & Leadbeater
Sculptor: Lawton, W. C.

An image of Bust

Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Robinson & Leadbeater
Sculptor: Lawton, W. C.

Seated figure of the Duke of Wellington

Maker(s)

Maker: Samuel Alcock and Co.

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: W. H. Kerr & Co
Sculptor: Jones, Edward John

An image of Bust

Ophelia

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Marshall, William Calder
Distributor: Crystal Palace Art Union

An image of Bust

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Turner & Wood

An image of Bust

The Bride

Maker(s)

Factory: Copeland
Sculptor: Monti, Raffaelle (After)

An image of Bust

War

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Unknown

Dante (Durante degli Aligheri) (c.1235-1321)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Robinson & Leadbeater

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Robinson & Leadbeater

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-92)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Adams & Co
Sculptor: Woolner, Thomas
Maker: Stark, John (Etruria)

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Francis, John (sculptor)

Lord George Bentick (1802-48)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: d'Orsay, Alfred, Comte

Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Westmacott, James Sherwood

Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland

Maker(s)

Sculptor: Noble, Matthew

George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861)

Maker(s)

Sculptor: Noble, Matthew

Napoleon III (1808-73)

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Copeland
Sculptor: Jones, J. E.
Sculptor: Cheverton, Benjamin

Unknown man

Maker(s)

Manufacturer: Unknown

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