Museum number
2019.94
Object
Figure of Juno (1 of pair), Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, 1750-2
Description
characteristically painted in washed enamels, Jupiter with streaked grey hair and puce cloak, holding a gilt sceptre with a massive brown eagle at his side, Juno in a puce-washed lemon-yellow and white dress, a peacock at her side, both on shaped rockwork bases. Jupiter 6 in high. Juno 5 1/2 in high.
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
figurine/sculptural group
Dimensions
13cm (h) x 10cm (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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