Figure of a Gardener
Bow Porcelain Factory (British)
c. 1765–70
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- England, London, Bow
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. A. M. Luntz
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Even though this figure and her counterpart (1945.37) are not accompanied by a sheep, these ceramic sculptures were sometimes known as “Garland Shepherds” during the mid-1700s. The name derived from a similar set produced by one of the Bow Porcelain Factory’s rivals, the Derby Porcelain Factory, in which the male figure holds a lamb. While these two factories often produced similar sets of pastoral, allegorical, biographical, and religious figures, the Bow Factory was known as one of the preeminent porcelain manufacturers, rivaled only by the Chelsea Porcelain Factory, with which Bow would later merge.
