Museum number
2019.337
Object
Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, c.1752
Description
painted in the Imari palette in a pale underglaze-blue and enriched in iron-red and gilding, with a quatrefoil jardinière of flowers, with blue wells with gilt trailing foliage within a border of trailing flowering plants and gilt tightly scrolling foliage enriched in iron-red, beneath a thick glaze. 9 in diam.
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
plate
Dimensions
1.1cm (h)
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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