Actress or Lady from 'The Blown Kiss'

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Title/s

Actress or Lady from 'The Blown Kiss'

Maker/s

Bow Porcelain Manufactory (factory)

Kaendler, Johann Joachim derived from (modeller) [ULAN info: German sculptor, 1706-75]

Filloeul, Pierre inspired by (engraver) [ULAN info: French engraver, active c.1730-1755]

Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph after (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1695-1736]

Category

soft-paste porcelain

Name

figure

School/Style

Rococo

Description

Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of an Actress or Lady from 'The Blown Kiss', press-moulded, covered in very pale turquoise glaze, and painted underglaze in dark blue and overglaze in polychrome enamels.

Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of an Actress or Lady from 'The Blown Kiss', press-moulded, covered in very pale turquoise glaze, and painted underglaze in dark blue and overglaze in pale blue, turquoise, two shades of green, yellow dark flesh pink, pale pink, dark pink, a little red, and brown enamel. The figure is supported on a high base with a scrolled edge pierced by five kidney-shaped holes at the front, and rising into a mound with a tree stump at the back, pierced by a rectangular hole for an attachment. The top of the front is decorated with three small flowers and foliage, and with two larger flowers and leaves. The lady stands on her right foot with her left foot behind her and to the side. She turns her head to her right and holds out her right arm in front of her, and with her left holds up her dress. She wears a small blue hat with a pink underside, white ribbon on top, and a gold edge; a white chemise, a yellow sack back robe, over a blue bodice with a yellow stomacher, ruffles at the sleeves, a flounced petticoat decorated with gold foliage in pink reserves with turquoise outlines, and with gold horizontal lines. Her shoes are dark blue with gold buckles.

Production Place

Stratford-le-Bow (factory) (place)

Essex (factory) (county)

England (factory) (country)

English (factory) (nationality)

Germany (modeller)

France (engraver)

France (painter)

Technique Description

soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, covered in very pale turquoise glaze, and painted underglaze in dark blue and overglaze in polychrome enamel

Dimensions

height: (whole): 19.6 cm
width: (whole):

Period

mid 18th Century
George III

Date

circa 1760 to 1765

Provenance

given: Dickson, W.D., Mrs 1950 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection)

Colonel and Mrs W.D. Dickson

Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

Inscriptions/Marks

1. mark
   Position: on the underside of the proper left back foot
   Method: painted underglaze in blue enamel
   Content: x
   Description:
   Interpretation:
   
2. mark
   Position: on the underside of the base
   Method: painted in red enamel
   Description: a dagger and an anchor with cable
   Interpretation: factory mark
   

Documentation

1. Adams, Elizabeth (1981) Bow Porcelain, London: Faber and Faber [page: p. 26]
   [comments: Publ. p. 26, pl. 57 and pl. 57, right]
2. Bradshaw, Peter (1992) Bow Porcelain Figures circa 1748-1774, London: Barrie & Jenkins [page: pp. 155, 178]
   [comments: Ref. This model does not resemble the Meissen lady paired with the gentleman or actor in 'The Blown Kiss'. She appears on several different bases, and may be paired with a completely different male figure, described as a gallant or actor, see Bradshaw, p. 178, B122, illustrated on p. 155, pl. 164, the lady on the right, and gallant on the left. The anchor with cable and dagger mark is noted by Bradshaw on the example of the Blown Kiss in the Untermeyer Collection (see Hackenbroch, 1956 and 1957). The anchor with cable is less common than an anchor without a cable, see p. 44-5 Cf. A pair in a private collection, with the man on a low four-footed base and the lady on a high four-footed base, see p. 205, C64, pl. 229, right]
3. Hackenbroch, Yvonne Meissen Porcelain and Copies of the Eighteenth Century, [page: pp. 149-153]
   Source title: Connoisseur (March 1956)
   [comments: Cf. A pair in the Untermeyer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, pp. 149-153, fig. 12 on p. 152; the Meissen pair fig. 11]
4. Hackenbroch, Yvonne (1957) Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London: Thames & Hudson [page: p. 179]
   [comments: Cf. p. 179, fig. 250, pl. 99]
5. Redstone, David (1981) Bow Porcelain, Stoke-on-Trent14th-31st Sept-Oct 1981)
   [comments: Cf. The man and lady in flounced skirt on square scroll footed bases in the Wernher Collection, Luton Hoo, see nos. 147a and b, dated c. 1760-65.]
6. Christie's London (1997) British and Continental Ceramics, London: Christie's [page: p. 28] 3 November 1997)
   [comments: Cf. A pair described as Gallant and Companion, c. 1765, p. 28, lot 56 (Estimate £1,500-2,000; fetched £1,725).]
7. Begg, Patricia (2000) A Treasury of Bow, A Survey of the Bow Factory from First Patent until Closure 1744-1774, Victoria: Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia [page: p. 78]
   [comments: Cf. A pair on scrolled bases, see p. 78, no. 243. Dated 1765-70.]

Other Notes

The Meissen couple were based on Le Baiser rendu, engraved by Pierre Filloeul after a painting by J.B. Pater, modelled by J. J. Kaendler in 1736.

Accession Number

C.86B-1950 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 42251; Input Date: 2002-02-19 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

Related Object

C.86A-1950 - Actor from 'The Blown Kiss'