Figure
possibly Longton Hall Porcelain Factory
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1756
Materials
Ceramics, soft paste porcelain, enamels, gilding
Measurements
113 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Stoke-on-Trent
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730487.1
Summary
Figure, one of a pair, 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. A seated girl, emblematic of summer, wears a floral costume and wreath and holds a bouquet, on a scrolled base. 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 ‘Thirteen White China Figures’. Bequeathed by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947), 1946.
Makers and roles
possibly Longton Hall Porcelain Factory, manufacturer possibly William Duesbury and Co., manufacturer