Sculpture - Brother and Sister
2023.0019
from the collection of
Creation Date
1948 – 1952Materials
Dimensions
4 .75" H x 4.5" W
Description
Bing and Grondahl porcelain figure No. 1568 features a brother and sister in the "Siblings" collection produced in the years 1948 to 1952. Designed by Ingeborg Plockross Irminger.This is an example of an underglaze technique. Color is painted on the porcelain after it has been fired once. This allows for fine details and depending on the glaze and firing temperatures, bright colors. Cobalt blue especially fires well at higher temperatures. It is then dipped in a clear thick glaze and fired again so the final surface of the object is transparent, smooth and shiny.
Bing & Grøndahl was a Danish porcelain manufacturer founded in 1853 by the sculptor Frederik Vilhelm Grøndahl and merchant brothers Meyer Hermann Bing and Jacob Herman Bing. The trademark backstamp for Bing & Grøndahl porcelains is the three towers derived from the Coat of Arms of Copenhagen.