Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Meissen Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Meissen (made)

Sugar bowl and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Straight-sided bowl with gently curved bottom and cover. Partly gilt cover knob modelled as a blossoming flower. Painted with flattened oval panels of grey-green ground with reserved sprays of flowers framed by gilt and engraved guilloche ornament, flowers and ribbons. Gilt dentil edge.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Sugar bowl and cover
Parts	This object consists of 2 parts. Sucrier Cover
Materials and techniques	Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt Hard Paste Porcelain Painted Gilt
Brief description	Sugar bowl and cover, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1775-85
Physical description	Sugar bowl and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Straight-sided bowl with gently curved bottom and cover. Partly gilt cover knob modelled as a blossoming flower. Painted with flattened oval panels of grey-green ground with reserved sprays of flowers framed by gilt and engraved guilloche ornament, flowers and ribbons. Gilt dentil edge.
Dimensions	Height: 10.6cm
Marks and inscriptions	Crossed swords with a star and a dot (Factory mark, in blue) flowers'32' (Impressed)
Object history	From Bond Collection.
Production	Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted	Flowers Ribbon Guilloche
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	526:1, 2-1875

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O307100/sugar-bowl-and-meissen-porcelain-factory/

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