soup bowl
Worcester Porcelain Factory 1751
Summary
Public: Two soup bowls, soft paste porcelain, painted overglaze in pink, iron red and green enamels and gilt with foliage pattern. Private: Two shallow moulded soup bowls with wide footring, fluted well, sloping fluted sides and scalloped edge. Flat undersides. Decorated in well with central white panel, foliate sprig with red berries at its centre, gilt scalloped border. Surrounding this, wide border of continuous peacock feather motif in dark pink, surrounded by gilt scrolls and cross hatching. Rim of bowl decorated with bright green foliage and red berries, and continuous line of gilt scrolls, scrolls and tendrils of foliage reaching down side of well to centre at regular intervals, creating eight irregular shaped panels. Gilt rim.
Object Name
soup bowl
Creators Name
Date Created
c 1775=1785
accession number
1917.481/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Worcester
Medium
Credit
Leicester Collier Bequest
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