拍品 49
49
AN ENGLISH EXPERIMENTAL PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ORIENTAL LADY in iron-red-lined magenta-edged yellow mob-cap revealing her brown hair and in a long-sleeved robe, the front decorated in underglaze-blue with trailing foliage and with overglaze turquoise-blue enamel, her right sleeve lined in magenta enamel, with an iron-red undergarment similarly decorated with underglaze-blue foliage and flowerheads and with yellow pointed shoes, standing on an oval magenta base with a band of scrolling foliage in underglaze-blue, the interior enriched in magenta enamel (chip to edge of base, some flaking to turquoise enamel of robe), probably late 1740's

细节
AN ENGLISH EXPERIMENTAL PORCELAIN FIGURE OF AN ORIENTAL LADY in iron-red-lined magenta-edged yellow mob-cap revealing her brown hair and in a long-sleeved robe, the front decorated in underglaze-blue with trailing foliage and with overglaze turquoise-blue enamel, her right sleeve lined in magenta enamel, with an iron-red undergarment similarly decorated with underglaze-blue foliage and flowerheads and with yellow pointed shoes, standing on an oval magenta base with a band of scrolling foliage in underglaze-blue, the interior enriched in magenta enamel (chip to edge of base, some flaking to turquoise enamel of robe), probably late 1740's
25.5cm. high

拍品专文

No similar figure of this type would appear to be recorded in the literature. Apart from the paste and glaze, the underglaze-blue decoration has some points of similarity with wares from the Limehouse factory, most particularly the small berried foliage on the robe and the scrolls about the base, while the enamelling is reminiscent of the palette associated with Staffordshire saltglaze. Although a definitive attribution is not possible, the likelihood of a Staffordshire origin with London connections should not be discounted. Joseph Wilson's recorded presence, first at Limehouse and then at Newcastle-under-Lyme, may perhaps provide a solution to the origin of this figure