tea bowl & saucer
Summary
Public: Teabowl and saucer, hard paste porcelain, harbour scene in enamel colours and gilt. Private: Tea bowl and saucer, hard paste porcelain, shallow bowl with slightly everted rim, high footring. Saucer has a flat base,slightly everted rim. Painted in iron red, purple, blue, green, yellow, brown and black enamel colours with harbour scenes within quatrefoil cartouches surrounded by scrollwork in gilt, iron red and purple. Inside the teabowl there is a further harbour scene. Borders of scrollwork in gilt.
Object Name
tea bowl & saucer
Creators Name
Date Created
c1740
Dimensions
tea bowl: 4.5cm
saucer:
accession number
1981.355/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Germany
Medium
Credit
Dr Frederick Lacks and Dr Erna Lacks Bequest
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