Figure — CRC# 1504
- Description
- A Plymouth (William Cookworthy) figure of America, circa 1768-70 From a set of the Four Continents, modelled as a woman wearing a feathered headdress and finely painted and gilt drapery over a feather skirt, her right hand reaching for an arrow in the quiver over her shoulder, her left hand by a tree stump, a small prairie dog at her feet, on a scroll-edged rocky base, 33.8cm high
- Service
- Figures
- Date
- 1768-70
- Size
- 33.8cm high
- Condition
- Perfect
- Mark
- No mark
- Mark Group
- No mark
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Cookworthy
- Historic Provenance
- The set of the Four Continents, first produced in soft-paste porcelain at Vauxhall is thought to have been brought to Plymouth by the mould-maker named Hammersley. Two figures of America, one Vauxhall and one Plymouth, were in the Lady Charlotte Schreiber Collection, given to the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. nos.414:8-1885 and 414:684-1885). Interestingly, Lady Schreiber writes in her journal in October 1869 that she was pleased to find the 'coveted article... a fine Plymouth figure of America', after months of scouring the Continent for one such example. It must have made an interesting comparison with the soft-paste Vauxhall example, which she had purchased just months before as Bow. A Plymouth figure of America left in the white was sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 160.
- CRC#
- 1504
- Type
- Figure
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