tea bowl
Summary
Two deep circular tea bowls, each with straight footring and everted rim. Cream coloured earthenware body sponged with manganese brown underglaze oxide, bleeding into glaze to give mottled streaky pattern, pooling around rim indicating that both pieces were fired upside down. Small stilt marks around rim of each bowl.
Object Name
tea bowl
Date Created
c 1750=1760
Dimensions
bowl: 4.5cm
bowl: 4.7cm
accession number
1923.733/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Staffordshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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