bowl, cover and stand
Summary
Public: Bowl, cover and stand, hybrid hard paste porcelain, painted with bunches of flowers on a dark blue ground decorated in enamel colours and gilding with gilt detail. Private: Bowl, cover and stand, hybrid hard paste porcelain. Round bowl, curving in to footring, has two angular double-scroll handles. Domed cover with everted rim, the handle formed as a stalk with two flowers. Circular stand with wide, upturned rim, narrow footring.Painted in green, yellow, yellow ochre, puce, mauve and iron red with naturalistic bunches of flowers in oval reserves on a dark blue ground, decorated with fine lines and small flowers in two colours of gilding. Details picked out in gilt. Inside the bowl, sprays of flowers in colours and gilt.
Object Name
bowl, cover and stand
Creators Name
Date Created
c 1770
Dimensions
bowl with cover: 10.4cm
plate: 3.1cm
bowl without cover: 6.2cm
accession number
1917.398/3
Collection Group
Place of creation
San Giobbe
Medium
Credit
Leicester Collier Bequest
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