id: 97996 accession number: 1917.626 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.626 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:22.948000 Figure of Britannia, c. 1756. Made by Longton Hall Porcelain Factory (British, Staffordshire, 1749–60), decorated by Vauxhall Porcelain Factory (British, 1751–1764). Soft-paste porcelain; overall: 28 x 24.5 x 13.7 cm (11 x 9 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness 1917.626 title: Figure of Britannia title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1756 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1760 current location: 203A British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness copyright: --- culture: England, Staffordshire technique: soft-paste porcelain department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Longton Hall Porcelain Factory (British, Staffordshire, 1749–60) - maker The first porcelain factory in Staffordshire, it was run by a salt-glaze potter, William Littler, from c. 1749 to 1760 and produced both decorative and useful wares in rather heavy soft-paste similar to that of Chelsea. Dishes, sauce-boats, teapots and small tureens composed of simulated overlapping leaves were a specialty. The Longton factory closed in 1760. (Dictionary of Decorative Arts. 1977, p. 493) * Vauxhall Porcelain Factory (British, 1751–1764) - decorator English porcelain manufactory, 1751-1764. The Vauxhall porcelain factory was run by the partnership of Nicholas Crisp, a merchant and owner of a jewelry shop in London, and John Saunders, a delftware potter. --- measurements: Overall: 28 x 24.5 x 13.7 cm (11 x 9 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020) opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00 British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Mary Warden Harkness [1864-1916], New York, NY, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1916 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1917- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Bequest of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 4 (1917): 63. page number: Mentioned: p. 63 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136090 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p.11 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n13 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n14 Milliken, William Mathewson. "European Porcelains Bequeathed by Mary Warden Harkness." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2 (February 1928): 57-59. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 58-9 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25137108 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.626/1917.626_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.626/1917.626_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.626/1917.626_full.tif