Museum number
2019.282
Object
Cylindrical ink-pot, Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, c.1760
Description
painted with The Quail Pattern, the shoulder pierced with four holes for pens and with tight iron-red scrolls with gilt quatrefoil flowerheads. 3 1/2 in diam.
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
inkstand
Dimensions
5.2cm (h) x 8.7cm (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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