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Creator: Bow Porcelain
Antique 18th Century Bow English Porcelain Figure of a Flute Player
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An antique English porcelain figurine.
By Bow.
In the form of a boy clothed in 18th century garb and holding a flute.
We've noted losse...
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18th Century English Georgian Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
A Bow Porcelain Figure of Winter, c1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
A Bow Porcelain Figure of Winter, c1765
Have named this version of winter "Dave" in tribute to the great and sorely missed observational Irish comedian Dave Allen.
Additional information:
Date : c1765
Period : George III
Marks : None
Origin : New Canton factory...
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18th Century English George III Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
A Bow Porcelain Figure of a Turkish Dancer, c1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
A Bow Porcelain Figure of a Turkish Dancer, c1765
Additional information:
Date : c1765
Period : George III
Marks : Unmarked. Label for Albert Amo...
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18th Century English George III Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
A Bow Porcelain Figure of a Female Turkish Dancer, c1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
A Bow Porcelain Figure of a Female Turkish Dancer, c1765
Additional information:
Date : c1765
Period : George III
Marks : Unmarked
Origin : Bow, ...
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18th Century English George III Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Figure - Seated Rustic Seasons - the Autumn Vendangeur, c1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Bow Porcelain Figure - Seated Rustic Seasons - the Autumn Vendangeur, c1765
Additional information:
Date : c1765
Period : George III
Marks : none...
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18th Century English George III Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Seated Rustic Seasons Figure of Winter, c1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Bow Porcelain Seated Rustic Seasons Figure of Winter, c1765
Additional information:
Date : c1765
Period : George III
Marks : None
Origin : New Canton factory...
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18th Century English George III Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Bow Complete Set of Porcelain Figures "The Four Elements", Rococo, circa 1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare and impressive complete set of large figures called The Four Elements, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1765. It consists of Ceres representing Earth, V...
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1760s English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Bow Pair of Porcelain Figures of Liberty & Matrimony, Rococo 1760-1764
By Bow Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This is a fabulous pair of figures of Liberty and Matrimony made by the Bow Porcelain factory between 1760 and 1764. These figures were a popular pair portraying marriage.
The bow...
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1760s English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Figure of a Nun, Perhaps Heloise, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic example of early bow porcelain.
The figure is of a Dominican Nun, and is based on a continental model, probably Meissen.
Bow produced a number of apparently religious...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Figure of Venus with Doves, Rococo, 1756-1764
By Bow Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This is a rare and beautiful figure of Venus with two doves, made by the bow porcelain factory between 1756 and 1764. We see Venus standing holding her robe with one hand, a flower p...
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1760s English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Figure of Juno with Eagle 'Jupiter', Rococo Ca 1765
By Bow Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare and impressive large figure of Juno with an eagle, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1765. This figure formed part of a series of the Four Elements, with...
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1760s English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Bow Pair of Porcelain Figures, Arlecchino and Columbina, Rococo ca 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful pair of figures of Arlecchino and Columbina, made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1758. These figures formed part of a series of the Commedia dell'Arte, a very popular series of theatrical figures that served as decoration at the dinner table in the 18th Century.
The Bow Porcelain Factory was one of the first potteries in Britain to make soft paste porcelain, and most probably the very first to use bone ash, which later got perfected by Josiah Spode to what is now the universally used "bone china". Bow was the main competitor of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, but where Chelsea made very fine slipcast porcelain, Bow made a different soft paste porcelain that tended to be softer and could be pressed into moulds. Bow served a larger public generally at lower prices. The factory was only in operation between 1743 and 1774, after which the tradition got incorporated into some of the later famous potteries such as Worcester and Derby.
These figures were used to adorn the dinner table when dessert was served; groups of figures served to express something about the host, the guests, or to direct the conversation. The Italian Commedia Dell'Arte, a comical form of masked theatre, was very popular in those days and Bow copied many figures of the German Meissen series that were brought out in the decades before.
This pair dates from about 1758, which was at the height of Bow's ability to make beautiful figurines often copied from Chelsea or Meissen. The pair is modelled after a Meissen pair by Kaendler. The porcelain is translucent with a beautiful milky glaze - Bow was probably the first pottery using bone in its porcelain recipe. Arlecchino (Harlequin) is playing the bagpipes, dressed in an odd costume of mismatched chintz and playing cards and wearing a funny black trumpet...
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1750s English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Winter, from the Four Seasons, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A personification of Winter, from The Four Seasons.
Unusually fine condition for a figure of this period.
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre.
...
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bow Porcelain Figure of Boy or Putto on C-Scroll Base, Georgian circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful little figure of a boy or putto made by the Bow Porcelain factory in about 1760.
The Bow Porcelain Factory was one of the first potteries in Britain to make soft...
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1760s English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure: Running Girl, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Small figure of a young woman wearing a puce-sprigged white skirt, lifted slightly with her left hand, pale pink jacket with typical Bow opaque blue collar and cuffs.
We've called...
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
On a mound base decorated with painted floral sprigs. She wears a pale pink-mauve washed shift with iron-red sleeves and cloak, pale mauve and pink stomacher and a sprigged white shi...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Il Dottore from the Commedia dell’Arte, in the white.
He stands in an histrionic pose against a tree stump and wears a high brimmed hat (presumably a black academic bonnet), long-buttoned coat over frilled cuffs, falling jabeaux, breeches, boots and a cloak; his right hand on hip, his left arm and hand raised. Slightly grey-white porcelain; even, unctuous glaze. Straw translucency. Underside wiped; air hole at centre. Square hole at rear for mount. Measure: H 6.3 in (16 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection, from Stockspring Antiques, London, 1998. The Miss G...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure, Mercury, Bow Porcelain, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
He wears a winged helmet and sandals, a loosely draped pink, white, and yellow washed cloak over a short tunic, and leans arrogantly against bales, his message sack over his left sho...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Decorative Basket, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1760
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pierced basket standing on a well-formed rococo base. Perhaps for potpourri, although the internal decoration suggests another use. We think probably oranges, chestnuts, etc.
Pr...
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Mid-18th Century English Rococo Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of figures: Jupiter and Juno, or Zeus and Hera. Bow Porcelain C1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
She stands barefoot, wearing a long-sleeved robe in white, deep pink and washed pale yellow and partly edged with gold; a red and gilt-topped sceptre in her right hand, an outsize pe...
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1750s English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Figure 'Scapino, ' from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Scappino, or Scapin, a zany (zanni) character from the commedia dell'arte: a buffoon, schemer and scoundrel, and the title character in Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin, first staged in 1671. The Bow figure shows him standing to right against a tree stump, right leg forward; right arm concealed in a tabarro (cape), and a mask in his left hand. He wears a white doublet, gilt frogged in the Hungarian manner, neck ruff, pale yellow-washed breeches above buckled shoes; a pouch on a red-brown strap and a dagger in a scabbard at the waist. Low square plinth base washed in typical pale Bow ‘lettuce’ green. No discernible translucency. H. 5.0 in (12.6 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Simon Spero London, 2008; the Faith and Dewayne Perry Collection.
The Scapino figure was presumably based on the Meissen modelled 1743-45 by Peter Reinicke, assisted by Käendler, and from the series produced for Johann Adlf II, Duke of Weissenfels, after an engraving by Francois Joullain (1662-1753) for Riccobin’s Historie du Théatre Italien, 1728. The modelling and features of the Bow figure suggest the work of the ‘Muses Modeller’, and the pallete, gilding and detail are also those of the muses modeller figures. This figure illustrated Bradshaw, 1992, as circa 1753, Plate 10 (A12), p.64.
Scapino is depicted musically in William...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982).
Toper is an old English word for a drunk.
Annulet Mark.
Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo.
A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fashionably dressed gentleman, almost certainly the actor David Garrick: he wears a white frockcoat, pink waistcoat and red breeches, all with embroide...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Kitty Clive Figure
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of Bow's theatrical figures.
The actress Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Clive, 1711-1785, as Mrs Riot, the Fine Lady, introduced, with The Fine Gentleman, into David Garrick...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Moulded in a dense body in typical muses modeller style and with slightly drab glaze. She stands by a fruiting vinestock and carries an open basket of grapes in her right hand, her e...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Flemish man and wife, in the white. He wears an open coat, waistcoat, breeches and tricorn hat, and plays a hurdy-gurdy. She wears a sleeved dress, long apron and linen cap and carri...
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1740s English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
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Figure representing Matrimony. Bow Porcelain C1751
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Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young man and woman seated on a green grassed mound, his right arm around her shoulder and his left arm supporting a yellow bird cage with a bird to which she is offering leaves. He wears a pink washed coat with gilt edging, white cravat, a deep-pink gilt-buttoned waistcoat above blue breeches with gilt garters and floral rosettes; white hose and yellow shoes, and a high, gilt-edged, curved hat. The young woman is bare headed, her hair tied with a blue flower; dark-brown ear rings, and a red ribbon around her neck. She wears a yellow bodice and a flowing full-length white dress painted with flower and gilt-centred sprigs in rose and blue with green leaves, and with pink-red shoes showing beneath the gilt hem. The whole precisely modelled albeit with some apparent firing difficulties on the underside and running of the glaze. H. 7.4 in (18.8 cm).
The cage represents marriage; this example is unusual as it more often the female holds the cage, hoping to ensnare the male.
Provenance: Anon, Bonhams, London, December 2010, Lot #106.
The Bow group was modelled by the Bow Muses modeller and shows the typical characteristics of the muse figures. The group was almost certainly derived from the Meissen of J. J. Kändler, late 1730s or early 1740s, probably from engravings by François Boucher: ‘Le Dénicheur de Moineaux’, 1727, after a painting by Watteau of 1710, and/or Les Amours du Bocage after Nicholas Lancret...
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By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
The actor Henry Woodward, 1714-77, in the white, shown in the role of The Fine Gentleman as introduced into Lethe in 1749, and taken from an undated mezzotint by James McArdell after Francis Hayman. One of the theatrical figures for which Bow is known; and one of the best known of the theatrical figures.
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Porcelain
Bow Porcelain figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Bow porcelain figurative sculptures are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of porcelain and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Bow Porcelain figurative sculptures, although gray editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original figurative sculptures by Bow Porcelain were created in the neoclassical style in united kingdom during the 18th century and earlier. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider figurative sculptures by Derby, and Wedgwood. Prices for Bow Porcelain figurative sculptures can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $695 and can go as high as $25,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $5,800.