Prince of Wales (later George III)
Vauxhall Porcelain Factory
Category
Ceramics
Date
1751 - 1752
Materials
soft paste porcelain
Measurements
267 x 195 x 117 mm
Place of origin
Vauxhall
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 205097
Summary
Bust of the Prince of Wales (later George III), soft paste porcelain, head turned half right, wearing wig with curls at side and long in back tied with a bow, shirt tight at the neck and ruffled down the front, coat with garter star half hidden by riband, and drapery extending from right shoulder across chest, the attached plinth with bowed front flairs out toward the base and features the crown and tri-feathers of the Prince of Wales, probably Vauxhall Porcelain Factory, London, 1751-2; left in the white.
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976)
Makers and roles
Vauxhall Porcelain Factory, manufacturer
References
Beddoe 2015: Stella Beddoe, A Potted History: Henry Willett’s Ceramic Chronicle of Britain Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2015, cat. 032, p. 19 Boulay 2002: Anthony du Boulay, 'English Ceramics in National Trust Houses' in 'English Ceramic Circle Transactions', Vol. 18, Part 1, 2002., fig. 14 Blunt, 1925: Reginald Blunt, The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery, Houghton Mifflin Company: London and New York, p. 130, fplate I, ig. 212 King, 1922: William King, Chelsea Porcelain, 1922, London: Benn Brothers Limited, p. 38, pl. 15 Esdaile 1928 K. A. Esdaile, The Life and Works of Louis François Roubiliac, Oxford and London, 1928, pp. 80-1, plate 20