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An interesting Orleans figure group painted in London, circa 1770-75
17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £625 inc. premium
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An interesting Orleans figure group painted in London, circa 1770-75
Modelled as a lady and gentleman seated on a boldly modelled scrolled base, she with applied flowers on her skirt, he with a basket of flowers on his knee, enamelled in London and highlighted in gold, 24cm high, anchor and dagger mark in red (minor losses and restoration, some kiln blackening)
Footnotes
See Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain (1994), p.249, no.200 for the model. The anchor and dagger mark is found on some late Bow porcelains, forming a distinct group with the same highly coloured palette and painting style. Hugh Tait has suggested that the mark was used during the brief period in which the London decorator William Brown was proprietor of the factory just prior to its closure, circa 1774-75. See Ars Ceramica, No.15, pp.27-33. This group is likely to have been decorated by Brown whilst running his decorating studio at 28 Coppice Row, Cold Bath Fields, Clerkenwell, prior to his take over of the Bow concern.