Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse)

François BoucherLinkedCulture matchlcp-8b3762df2461

Date
1748–52
Medium
unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit porcelain)
Culture
France, Vincennes
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
136533

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A porcelain figurine depicts a young girl in a bonnet and puffed sleeves, holding her skirt.

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Although a few Vincennes porcelain figures exist which are glazed, the royal factory adopted at an early date the practice of producing unglazed, biscuit figures which, because of the purity of their material, resemble marble figurines. The fashion for biscuit figures first introduced at Vincennes quickly spread through Europe.

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Credit line
The Norweb Collection
Provenance
R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.

Part of a LinkedCulture topic

  • Representative object from the topic 18th Century Porcelain Figurines
    18th Century Porcelain Figurines

    These objects are decorative ceramic figures and figure groups made from soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain during the 18th century, produced by major European porcelain factories including Meissen, Sèvres, Derby, Chelse

    413 objects from 4 institutions

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