Female figure
Bow Porcelain Factory (fl.c. 1748-1774)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1760
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
240 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Stratford-le-Bow
Order this imageCollection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 723481.1
Summary
One of a pair of Bow porcelain figures. Seated female figure depicting Matrimony. Wearing a pink hat, yellow waistcoat and pink flowered skirt, and holding a birdcage symbolising marriage in her right hand. Mounted on a gilded turquoise and pink decorated wave-scrolled base. Figure surrounded by a green-flowered bocage background. Circa 1760.
Makers and roles
Bow Porcelain Factory (fl.c. 1748-1774), potter