Bow
(England 1744–1776)
- Title
- Sweetmeat container with female monkey
- Year
- circa 1758-circa 1762
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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14.0 x 12.1 x 11.8 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.88
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The theme of monkeys dressed as humans engaging in human activities was an unfailing source of amusement to the 18th century. The Bow figures are said to be based on Meissen prototypes. The impressed mark ‘T’ (sometimes ‘To’) also occurs on Worcester, Plymouth and Bristol figures and is possibly that of a repairer named Toulouse or ‘Tebo’ (the latter presumably an anglicised form of the French name Thibault). See also Sweetmeat container with male monkey (L2012.89).
- Bibliography (2)
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'Porcelain's powerful potential' by Josephine Touma, pg.32-33, Look Nov 2012, Nov 2012, 33 (colour illus.).
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 49 (colour illus.). cat.no. 53
