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They may have been intended for display on wall brackets or on a chimney-piece. However, they would have looked best set out on a dining table, which is probably how they were intended to be used. The earliest porcelain figures were made for the dessert course of grand dinners. They gradually replaced sugar paste and wax figures, which had been made since medieval times for royal wedding feasts. Originally intended as expressions of dynastic power and to celebrate political allegiances, by the 16th century allegorical themes had been introduced into these table settings. By the 18th century many were entirely decorative. Meissen in Germany was the first factory to make porcelain figures for the dessert, and Meissen set the sculptural conventions followed by porcelain factories elsewhere.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>All the figures in the group would first have been modelled in wax, possibly by a London sculptor. A set of hollow plaster moulds would have been taken from these wax originals. Several moulds would have been needed for the complete group, since it is complex with much undercutting. A mixture of clay and water would then have been poured into the hollow moulds, and removed and assembled once the clay had dried sufficiently.","physicalDescription":"Group in white glazed soft-paste porcelain of a Chinese man about to chastise a little boy, and the man is wearing a large hat, a long cloak thrown over an ample robe, and has a very long moustache, and the boy is clad in a long robe and pointed cap.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Carlini, Agostino","id":"A1743"},"association":{"text":"modelled","id":"x28693"},"note":"original model attributed to"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Derby Porcelain factory","id":"A9087"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[{"text":"glazed","id":"AAT53914"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain and glazed","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AV8036","2019LX1488"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"52D (VA)","id":"THES49257"},"free":"","case":"CA6","shelf":"","box":"4"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Group","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Derby","id":"x31922"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1752-55","earliest":"1747-01-01","latest":"1756-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"23.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approx.","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"14.97","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approx.","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Registered Description; 01/01/1998 by KN","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Samuels, Norwich, for £5 in December 1872\r\nAcquired as Bow or Chelsea porcelain.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Group from 'The Five Senses' in white glazed soft-paste porcelain of 'Touch' represented as a Chinese man about to chastise a little boy, made by Derby Porcelain Factory, Derby, ca. 1752-55","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Beevers, David (ed.) <i>Chinese Whispers: Chinoiserie in Britain 1650-1930</i>, Brighton: The Royal Pavilion and Museums, 2008","id":"AUTH351333"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Mallet, J.V.G. 'Agostino Carlini and Dry-Edge Derby' in Walford, Tom and Hilary Young <u>British Ceramic Design, 1600-2002: Papers presented at the colloquium celebrating the 75th anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle, 1927-2002.</u> 2003, p. 46, fig. 6"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"man","id":"x35641"},{"text":"boy","id":"x42934"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\r\nThis figure is from a set representing The Five Senses, shown wearing Chinese dress. Under French influence, mid-18th century designers introduced an elegant, new Chinoiserie figure type. 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