tea bowl & saucer
Summary
Public: Three tea bowls and saucers, cream coloured earthenware, painted in red overglaze enamel with scattered flowers and sprigs. Private: Deep tea bowl on narrow footring, with impressed beaded border beneath slight everted rim. Exterior sides loosely painted in iron red monochrome with floral spray and two small leafy sprigs, interior with scalloped band beneath rim and single sprig in well. Deep saucer with curved rim and narrow footring, with impressed beaded border to well. Rim painted with large floral spray and three leafy sprigs within scalloped band, single sprig to well. Pale cream coloured body with greenish-yellow glaze.
Object Name
tea bowl & saucer
Date Created
c 1770=1780
Dimensions
saucer: 2.7cm
tea bowl: 4.1cm
overall: 4.8cm
accession number
1923.865
Collection Group
Place of creation
Yorkshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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