Figure of a Shepherdess

ca. 1765

Bow Porcelain Manufactory, London, England

This work was a gift from the collection of Frances McDougall, an original member of the Seattle Ceramic Society beginning in the mid-1940s.

Wearing an iron-red and turquoise hat, a gilt bead necklace, a blue-cuffed rose bodice, a rose-and yellow-striped skirt, and a petticoat patterned with iron-red-ground stripes matching his breeches patterned with iron-red-ground stripes matching his breeches and alternating with stripes of gilt foliage and turquoise dots, holding a blue posy in her raised right hand, clasping the corner of her flower-filled white apron with her left hand and standing before a colorful flowering bocage with a pale russet-spotted sheep recumbent at her feet; One of a pair, each figure on a blossom and leaf-applied pierced rococo base heightened in gilding.

Porcelain

6 13/16 x 3 3/16 x 3 in. (17.3 x 8.1 x 7.6 cm)

Gift of Frances McDougall

2014.16.8b

Provenance: [Stoner and Evans, Inc., NY]; Purchased from gallery by Frances McDougall, April 1945 – her death; by inheritance to Mrs. McDougall’s grand-daughter Katherine Kasony-Quinn; gift from Ms. Kasony-Quinn to Seattle Art Museum (in her grandmother’s name), June 2014.

Photo: Elizbeth Mann

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 18th Century Porcelain, number 19, April 19 - May 27, 1956

Published ReferencesEnglish Ceramic Circle Transactions, Volume 6, Part 1, 1965, “Some Pottery and Porcelain from the Collections of American Members,” p. 49 and pl. 50 (a).

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