tea bowl & saucer

Zachariah Boreman 1737 - 1810

Summary

Public: Tea bowl and saucer, soft paste porcelain, painted in overglaze enamels and gilt with landscape scenes and borders. Private: Deep tea bowl with curved base on straight footring. Decorated round side with bleu de roi band entwined with leafy gilt vine, set between two gilt chain borders. Interior painted in well with rural landscape enclosed within bleu de roi band entwined with gilt foliage. Landscape consists of river scene with elegantly dressed woman and two fishermen, framed on left by overhanging tree, houses on far bank to right. Gilt dentil edge to bowl rim, gilt band round footring. Deep curved saucer on tapered footring, decorated with matching decoration of rural landscape surrounded by border of bleu de roi band entwined with gilt foliage between two gilt chain bands. Landscape consists of river scene with figure on horseback in foreground, tree to right and buildings in distance on opposite bank to left. Dentil edge to saucer rim.