Parian ware figure
Unglazed, marble-white porcelain that made miniature sculpture possible for middle-class homes.
Parian was developed in Staffordshire around 1845, and the factories sold reduced copies of famous sculptures. Art unions raffled the figures among their members. Examples are in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Potteries Museum in Stoke.
Materials: Parian porcelain (unglazed biscuit)
Manufacture: Slip-cast in plaster moulds; left unglazed to resemble marble from the island of Paros.
The matt, faintly glistening white surface like marble.
Mould seams on the back and the factory’s impressed name.