tea bowl & saucer



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

Place of creation

Yorkshire

Medium

Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

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