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This dish was for serving food at a domestic dinner. It was probably intended for fruit or other sweet foodstuffs served during the dessert course.
Design & Designing
The Bow factory's engraver copied the figure scene from A New Book of Chinese Designs (1754). This was published by the engraver, designer and 'Professor of Ornament' Matthew (Matthias) Darly (1741-1780), together with the ornithologist George Edwards (1694-1773). It was reported in the Art Journal in 1869 that a personal copy of this book along with various papers associated with a Bow factory employee named John Bowcock were known to have survived together. The book has since disappeared and the papers scattered to private and public collections.
Materials & Making
The Bow factory made a type of porcelain strengthened with ashes from animal bones. The result was a comparatively durable ceramic material, one that was suitable for utilitarian wares. The factory made large quantities of inexpensively decorated porcelain, which was aimed at the middle-ranges of the market. Most of this was painted in underglaze blue, but some was overglaze printed, as here.","physicalDescription":"Dish of soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed over the glaze and painted with enamels, and oval with a lobed rim and wavy edge lined in brown, and in the middle is a man approaching a games table at which a woman is seated, and on the rim are two smaller groups, one of a man, woman, and child, and the other of three children, all in pseudo-Chinese dress.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Bow Porcelain Factory","id":"A1505"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},{"text":"transfer printing","id":"AAT53922"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in brown over the glaze and painted with enamels","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"SCRAN","id":"THES48897"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AU2063"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"53A (VA)","id":"THES49763"},"free":"","case":"CA1","shelf":"","box":"21"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Dish","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1765","earliest":"1760-01-01","latest":"1769-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Charles Schreiber, Esq., MP, and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"16.51","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"20","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Registered Description; 01/01/1998 by KN","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Dish of soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed over the glaze and painted with enamels, and oval with a lobed rim and wavy edge lined in brown, made by Bow Porcelain Factory, London, ca. 1765.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Beevers, David (ed.) Chinese Whispers: Chinoiserie in Britain 1650-1930, Brighton: The Royal Pavilion and Museums, 2008","id":"AUTH351333"},"details":"","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"man","id":"x35641"},{"text":"woman","id":"x35642"},{"text":"child","id":"x31382"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nThe design on this dish was printed in outline and then painted over with enamel colours. This was a cheap method of reproducing coloured decoration. The painter did not need to be particularly skilful so could be paid a low wage.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["310:1-1889"],"accessionNumberNum":"310","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1889,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Schreiber number","id":"THES50279"},"number":"Sch. I 116"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP9625","2019LP1960","2019LT5119","2019LT9541","2019LW6906"],"recordModificationDate":"2023-08-03","recordCreationDate":"2003-04-07"}}