Museum number
2019.180
Object
White figure of Henry Woodward, Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, c.1750
Description
in the role of 'The Fine Gentleman' from Garrick's farce 'Lethe' wearing a tricorn hat, a jacket and waistcoat, with traces of cold-fired gilding, and tight breeches, his sword behind his leg, standing before a ruined pillar on a square base incised with diamond-pattern, incised star mark beneath the base. 10 1/2 in high.
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
figurine/sculptural group
Dimensions
27cm (h) x 11.5cm (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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