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Bow Porcelain Works, London (manufacturer)
FIGURES c. 1760
2 Figures, Shepherd & Shepherdess, "W", anchor & dagger marks
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Colin Templeton Collection. Gift of Mrs Colin Templeton, 1942
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FIGURES
c. 1760
Medium
2 Figures, Shepherd & Shepherdess, "W", anchor & dagger marks
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Colin Templeton Collection. Gift of Mrs Colin Templeton, 1942
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
The eighteenth-century Rococo employed pastoral imagery to conjure up an ideal world where a carefree humanity lived a life of simple pleasures in harmony with nature and with one another. Images of shepherds and shepherdesses evoked this realm of rustic bliss and were a common subject for porcelain sculptures produced in both England and on the Continent. The individually modelled applied floral decorations, known as bocage work, on this image of a shepherd musician by the English Bow factory are a characteristically English form of decoration and serve to heighten the pastoral associations of the image.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
397.1-2-D4
Department
International Decorative Arts
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