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A good pair of Bow figures of Cooks, circa 1756
23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,462.50 inc. premium
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A good pair of Bow figures of Cooks, circa 1756
Modelled standing, she holding a joint of meat on a platter held before her, the folds of her apron used to protect her hands from the heat of the dish, wearing a pale yellow coat with puce cuffs, her skirt painted with black florets, he holding a circular dish laid with a cooked chicken and lemon slices, wearing a turban-like cap and yellow striped breeches, his bright blue frock coat with a pale pink lining, the mound bases applied with flowers, 17cm high, she with impressed 'B' to reverse of base, he with incised 'T' underneath base (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
Distinguished Private Collection
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
These celebrated figures are mentioned in the 1756 memorandum book of John Bowcock, clerk to the Bow factory. Sixteen pairs were ordered from him by the dealer Fogg in 1756. A pair from the Peter Bradshaw Collection is illustrated in his book, Bow Porcelain Figures (1992), p.138, pl.127 and col. pl.III and was sold by Bonhams on 24 January 2007, lot 18. Others are illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.132-3, no.213 and in Yvonne Hackenbroch's Untermeyer Catalogue (1957), pl.81, fig.244. The male cook is also recorded in Chelsea.