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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Ecuelle

Bowl and Cover
ca. 1748-ca. 1753 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular low bowl with low domed cover, tin-glazed earthenware. The cover with finial formed as a flowering rose branch, and the two horizontal handles to the bowl formed as rose leaves; painted with bunches of cut flowers and with gilt dentil border


Object details

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Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl Body
  • Bowl Cover
TitleEcuelle
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours and gilt
Brief description
Circular low bowl with low domed cover, tin-glazed earthenware, Paul Hannong's pottery factory, Strasbourg, about 1748-1753
Physical description
Circular low bowl with low domed cover, tin-glazed earthenware. The cover with finial formed as a flowering rose branch, and the two horizontal handles to the bowl formed as rose leaves; painted with bunches of cut flowers and with gilt dentil border
Production
Acquired as 'probably German (Kiel)', partly by comparison with Strasbourg dishes C.578, C.579-1909, then considered possibly German. Reattributed to Strasbourg by comparison with a piece variously described a having the Paul Hannong and Joseph Hannong mark. The bowl is of the same class as C.579-1909 and similar to pieces illustrated in Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 36-7, and Historiches Museum, Basel, Strassburger Keramik, 1986, cat. 116-17. These pieces have been associated with the painter Christian-Wilhelm Löwenfink and dated to c. 1748-54. For a Strasbourg bowl of this shape see Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, exhibition catalogue, 'Faïences Françaies, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles', 1980, cat. 450.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.25&A-1929

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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