Fire
Nicolas-François Gauron (fl. 1773)
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1760
Materials
Ceramics, soft paste biscuit porcelain
Measurements
153 x 85 mm
Place of origin
Tournai
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730478
Summary
Figure, soft paste biscuit porcelain, Fire, from the series 'The Four Elements', modelled by Nicholas-Joseph-François Gauron (c.1736 – fl.1773), Tournai, Belgium, circa 1760. A cupid wearing a brimmed hat sharpens his arrows on a grindstone while his companion holds a flaming torch. Unmarked.
Provenance
Listed in the ‘Inventory of Heirlooms at Stourhead directed to be taken by the Will of the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart.’, 1838, in the China Cupboard, as one of ‘Seventeen small ornamental French China Figures’. Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
Nicolas-François Gauron (fl. 1773), modeller