Fire

Bow Porcelain Factory

ca. 1748–50 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This figural group is one of a set of four personifying the Elements—Fire, Air, Water, Earth—after a print by François Boucher (1703–1770). It links fire to the brewing and serving of tea in China, using imaginatively clad Chinese figures.

Artist

Bow Porcelain Factory

Date

ca. 1748–50

Medium

Soft-paste porcelain

Culture

British, Bow, London

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964