Figures
possibly Longton Hall Porcelain Factory
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1756
Materials
Ceramics, soft paste porcelain, enamels, gilding
Place of origin
Stoke-on-Trent
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730487
Summary
A pair of figures, soft paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, probably Longton Hall Porcelain Factory, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, or William Duesbury and Co., Derby, Derbyshire, England, circa 1756. Two seated figures emblematic of summer, a girl and a boy, wear floral costume and wreaths and hold bouquets, on a scrolled base. Base of male figure incised 'IW'.
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 ‘Thirteen White China Figures’. Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Marks and inscriptions
I.W. (incised inscription on boy)
Makers and roles
possibly Longton Hall Porcelain Factory, manufacturer possibly William Duesbury and Co., manufacturer