Museum number
2019.191
Object
Pair of oblong octagonal dishes (1 of pair), Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, c.1753
Description
painted in a vibrant palette with a yello-centred pink flowering shrub issuant from blue rockwork with a bird in flight above, the wells enriched with gilt C-scrolls and foliage, within green diaper-pattern borders reserved with pink flowerheads within pale-yellow and blue cartouches. 10 3/4 in wide.
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
plate
Dimensions
3.4cm (h) x 27cm (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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