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Smaller brackets were made in porcelain for displaying ceramic figures or vases.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>Similar brackets made in plaster were sold by the London plaster-shops. The closest parallels for this piece are plaster brackets sold by John Cheere (1709-1787), whose premises at London's Hyde Park Corner were illustrated in William Hogarth's satirical print <i>The Analysis of Beauty</i> of 1753. Such commercially-produced plasters were occasionally used at British porcelain factories as prototypes for production, especially for figures and busts. Both the bracket and the bust it supports were probably copied from plasters in this way. If so, the original plaster bracket would have been cut into smaller parts from which hollow plaster-production moulds could be made. Some plaster-makers knew that their production lines were being reproduced by the ceramics factories (and charged them accordingly), but others remained on their guard against plagiarism.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>The bust has been analysed and found to contain soaprock. We know from documents that Richard Chaffers (1731-1765) of Liverpool was licensed to mine soaprock, and he currently seems the most likely manufacturer of these pieces.","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Cheere, John","id":"A8240"},"association":{"text":"sculptor","id":"AAT25181"},"note":"after"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Richard Chaffers Factory","id":"A1504"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"AAT251917"},"note":"possibly"},{"name":{"text":"Vauxhall porcelain factory","id":"A9239"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"AAT251917"},"note":"probably"}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AM8345","2006AM8311"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"53A","id":"THES49763"},"free":"","case":"CA5","shelf":"","box":"25"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bracket","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Liverpool","id":"x30239"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Vauxhall","id":"x35409"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1757-1760","earliest":"1757-01-01","latest":"1760-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"414:134-1885","id":"O79586"},"association":"Part"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"27.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"19.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Registered Description; 01/01/1998 by LM","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Possibly after a plaster by John Cheere (born in London, 1709, died in London, 1787)\nProbably made at the Vauxhall porcelain factory, possibly made at Richard Chaffers' porcelain factory, Liverpool, England","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Porcelain, probably made at the Vauxhall factory, or possibly made at Richard  Chaffers' Liverpool factory, 1757-60","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Daniels, Pat.  <u>The Origin and Development of Bow Porcelain 1730-1747</u>, Resurgat  Publishers, Oxon, 2012.  See pp 271-278 for an alternative attribution to the Bow  porcelain factory for this bracket and the bust of George II it supports, another similar bust and bracket in the National Museum of  Ireland, Dublin and a further bracket in the British Museum."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Mallet, J.V.G.. Some Baroque sources of English ornamental porcelains A paper read at the weekend  seminar  Fire and Form – The Baroque and its influence on English Ceramics, c. 1660-1760, 26th-27th  March 2011, published English Ceramics Circle, 2013, pp123-146, illustrates the version at Leeds City Art Galleries, fig. 34, and favours an attribution to the Vauxhall porcelain factory"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"For this bracket and bust, and the group to which they belong, see also Roderick Jellicoe, 'Liverpool Porcelain: Fact or Fiction?', Northern Ceramic Society Journal, Vpl. 28 (2012), pp. 175-190"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["C.53-1931"],"accessionNumberNum":"53","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1931,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP6936","2019LR5852","2019LV6717"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}