Museum number
2019.162
Object
A group of the Goddess Ki Mao Sao, Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, 1750-52
Description
with two attendants, she with her hair elaborately dressed and wearing a pale-yellow jacket and pale-pink dress edged in gilding, the two kneeling attendants with white robes enriched with pale-red flowerheads and green foliage, on a scroll-moulded base applied with blue flowers and green foliage, the moulding enriched in brown and gilding, about a central oval cartouche with puce mock Oriental characters, the reverse lightly enriched with green moss, the base with E mark in red. 10 3/4 in long
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
figurine/sculptural group
Dimensions
16.5cm (h) x 26.3cm (w)
Founded in the mid-1740s, the Bow factory, located in Bow, now East London, was the first English manufacturer to make porcelain on a commercial scale. Bow porcelain was largely aimed at the middle-classes. Famous for its imitations of imported Chinese and Japanese porcelain, the factory also produced some of the earliest full-length figures in English porcelain. From the 1760s the quality declined and the factory closed around 1774. The factory’s legacy lives on as its use of bone ash in the manufacture of porcelain evolved into what we know as English bone china.

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