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Style: Neoclassical
Creator: Bow 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 Furniture
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Porcelain
Pair of Lions. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive pair of lions, in the white; possibly based on a Chinese original.
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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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 Furniture
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Porcelain
Botanical Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine octagonal plate painted in the botanical style; possibly the yellow gloriosa climbing lily.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Robyn Robb 2003.
Filled edge chips.
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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Porcelain
Shell Sweetmeat Stand, Bow Porcelain, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Three-tiered stand for sweetmeats, in the form of shells and coral, and enameled with flowers; it is rare to find these in such good condition. Probably from a large dessert service.
These stands were popular in the Georgian period and were made by most of the porcelain factories. Many were modelled by a man named Tebo, who went from factory to factory creating these stands. He appears to have used real shells...
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Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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Porcelain
Dated Crowther Plate, Bow Porcelain Factory, 1770
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
The so-called ‘Crowther Plate’ dated January 1770:
Octagonal, painted in blue underglaze with the monogram ‘RC’ in a floral cartouche and with elaborate scroll, pendant and cell a...
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1770s English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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Porcelain
Cherub Candlestick, in the White, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This example illustrated Tilley 1957, Pl. LXVII, #203 who, p.127, also draws attention to the similarity of the modelling of the figure and the Bow Mongolian busts, and their similar...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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Porcelain
Early Bow Porcelain Pickle Dish, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In the early ‘mushroom grey’ body, probably made by hand; decorated with some very good flower painting.
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Simon Spero 2007.
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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Porcelain
Tankard with Printed Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug, in baluster form, decorated with early transfer prints of pheasants and two sheep. Transfer printing on bow porcelain is very rare.
Prov: Taylor Coll; Winifred Williams,...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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Porcelain
Cauldron Salt Cellar, in the White, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A cauldron-shaped salt: a direct copy of a contemporary (Georgian) silver shape in soft-paste porcelain.
Provenance: Taylor collection.
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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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 Furniture
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Porcelain
Early Cream Boat, Worcester, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A small, early boat of rare oval form, the more usual being the hexagonal.
Appealingly naïve polychrome decoration of the period, possibly done outside the factory at one of the enamelling works.
The early Worcester...
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Mid-18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Bow Porcelain Furniture
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Porcelain
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Flower Basket, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A purely decorative item, of small size and probably intended for a lady's dressing table.
These flower baskets were popular, and made by a number of factories. They are a tour de...
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Figure of a Shepherd and His Dismal Hound, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine early colored figure of a shepherd playing his bagpipes, accompanied by his dismal hound.
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Sea Bird, in the White, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unidentified bird, perched on rocks with wings extended; presumably a gull.
An early, perhaps experimental piece, sculpted by hand.
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Figure 'Charity, ' Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Figure of a young woman emblematic of Charity as one of the Three Theological Virtues.
In the white, she stands loosely robed and with sash and head scarf, a small child lifted to her left breast and a slightly older child, to whom she is giving a coin, kneeling at right. All on a naturalistically moulded ‘rocky’ base. White body with thick clear glaze. Slight green-straw translucency. Base unglazed. H.10.0 in (25.3 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection; E. & H. Manners, London, 2013.
The Bow Charity figure is probably a slightly later work of the so-called Muses Modeller, and appears to have been unusual to have been left in the white. As suggested by Yarbrough, 1996, the existing enamelled examples appear likely to have been decorated in the studio of William Duesbury or other external enameller. Later C.18th European examples of a different form are recorded, as are early C.19th pearlware examples, some with painted detailing. The Collection group was probably based on an original Meissen model by J. F. Eberlein, circa 1750, possibly after a C17th bronze...
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Pair of Birds in Branches, Bow Porcelain, circa 1749
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important, early example of Bow animal figures.
Two pairs of feeding birds, each bird on a branch from a low divided tree stump. All four birds basically identical, with each pair symmetrically perched in facing positions. The birds apparently solid, and all somewhat naively hand-modelled with bulbous eyes, exaggerated beaks, (with the remains of a worm), disproportionately detailed representation of wing and tail feathers, and very heavily undercut markings on the upper wings. The birds in a dense, heavy porcelain body, with a dull blue-grey glaze with considerable similarity to the Bow ‘drab ware’ glaze. No discernible translucency, presumably due to the heaviness of the molding.
The trunk bases of each pair with probably somewhat slightly later attached mounts of green tôle piente leafy branches terminating in white Derby Porcelain flowers...
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Harlequin and Columbine Dancing, Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain C1754
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Dancers, modelled in the round, holding closely and each with one leg raised. He wears a rimmed hat with a yellow flowerhead; she bare headed with long soft brown plaits at her back....
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Figure representing Matrimony. Bow Porcelain C1751
By Bow Porcelain
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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Henry Woodward Figure. Bow Porcelain C1749
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.
He stands, hands in pockets, legs astride, on a flat square base in front of a ‘broken’ vertical plinth (which acts as a structural support). He wears a long, open, wide-tailed frock coat with embroided buttons, collar and large cuffs, all above a partially buttoned under-shirt with cravat at collar, his knee-length buttoned breeches tied above stockinged legs and feet in buckled shoes; a large tricorn hat above long hair and flower-tied queue. A sword at his left. H. H. 10.0 in (25.5 cm).
Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne, 1969.
Lethe was first produced as an afterpiece in April 1745, followed by a series of revisions until 1772. The most popular of these was that introduced in 1749 in which David Garrick included the roles of the Fine Lady, Mrs Riot, and the Fine Gentleman, played by Kitty Clive...
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Pair of Pug Dogs. Bow Porcelain C1754
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
In the white. Each recumbent on an integrated base moulded as a cushion with ‘embroidered’ edge and tasselled corners; the bitch with head raised, the dog sleeping with head turned, ...
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