Tea Bowl
1713-1717 (made)
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Tea bowl of hard-paste porcelain (Böttger porcelain), relief moulded with a frieze of feathery plant ornament. Sparsely painted in enamels with oriental garden, trees and a lake.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain (Böttger porcelain), painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Tea bowl, hard-paste porcelain (Böttger porcelain), painted in enamels, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, 1715-1720. |
| Physical description | Tea bowl of hard-paste porcelain (Böttger porcelain), relief moulded with a frieze of feathery plant ornament. Sparsely painted in enamels with oriental garden, trees and a lake. |
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| Object history | Formerly Sir Hercules Read Collection (Sale, Sotheby, 5-9 Nov 1928, lot 175/9). |
| Production | Examined by Malcolm Gutter June 2010, who attributed the enamelling to Georg Funcke's workshop. The absence of iron red and black suggests a date between 1713 and 1717 as these colours first appear in Funcke's invoices to the factory in 1718. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Honey, W. B. Dresden china: an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain. London: A. & C. Black, 1946, Pl. VIII (b), p. 58. |
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| Accession number | C.406-1928 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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