The Garland Shepherdess
William Duesbury and Co.
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1771 - 1778
Materials
Ceramics, soft paste porcelain, enamels, gilding
Measurements
203 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Derby
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730574.2
Summary
Figure, one of a pair, soft paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, The Garland Shepherdess, William Duesbury and Co., Derby, Derbyshire, England, circa 1771-1778. A woman wearing a red hat dresses a lamb in a garland, on a scrolled base. [check marks]
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
William Duesbury and Co., manufacturer