This delightful sculpture, Large Daydreaming Dancer, captures a young girl in a moment of quiet contemplation as she takes a break from her endeavours. 

Following the success of Jonathan Sanders’s original ‘Daydreaming Girl’, we received requests from collectors to create this piece in a larger size.  Large Daydreaming Dancer is one of three new sculptures to young dancers to be added to Jonathan Sanders’s collection of sculptures of children, exclusively produced in collaboration with the Wedgwood Museum.

We hand cast Large Daydreaming Dancer as a limited edition of just 250 solid bronze castings in our British foundry.  This is NOT made from resin/cold cast bronze.

Every casting is engraved with its unique edition number and bears Jonathan Sanders’s signature and our ‘NF’ maker’s mark.  Each sculpture arrives beautifully presented in a handmade presentation gift box, accompanied by a numbered and individually signed certificate of authenticity, making a wonderful gift.

Jonathan Sanders was invited by The Wedgwood Museum to create a range of contemporary bronze sculpture, inspired by its collections.

The Wedgwood Museum Collection is a unique record of the history of the Wedgwood company and of high quality English manufacturing. It includes a large range of manuscripts, correspondence, factory equipment, trials and original models as well as fine art by the likes of George Stubbs and Joshua Reynolds and, of course, ceramics. The basis of the collection can be traced back to the founder, Josiah Wedgwood I, who, conscious of the experimental nature of the work he was undertaking, kept his trials and experiments for posterity.

When Jonathan Sanders visited the museum, he says that he was ‘Utterly bowled over by the quality and beauty of so much of the collection, which represents the best in English design and production over the past 250 years’.

He was particularly entranced by the Domestic Employment series of Jasperware, depicting young children going about their day to day life, typically engaged in ‘domestic employment’. The depictions are a beautiful and some might say a slightly romantic view of how ordinary children experienced life in the 1780s, from the point of view of the aristocrat, Lady Elizabeth Templetown.

“I couldn’t help but compare those scenes with the lives of my own children”, he says, “and was inspired to sculpt a collection of pieces of them going about their every day life today.”

The resulting pieces are a depiction, by a contemporary artist, of the domestic life of today’s English child and Nelson & Forbes are proud to have the opportunity to produce them by hand in England, just as Wedgwood have done for many generations.

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