Museum number
2019.253
Object
Figure of 'Earth', Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, c.1760
Description
modelled as a nymph in a pale-pink-lined yellow cloak and flowered dress boldly painted with puce, yellow and blue flowers tied with blue belt, holding a spirally-moulded cornucopia of fruit and flowers and standing before a lion with brown fur, chocolate muzzle and yellow eyes on an oval base applied with a blue flower with four green leaves. 7 3/4 in high.
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
figurine/sculptural group
Dimensions
19cm (h) x 12cm (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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