Not currently on display at the V&A

Bowl

ca. 1930 (designed), ca. 1930 (made)
Artist/Maker
Villeroy & Boch (maker)
Place of origin
Mettlach (made)

Shallow rimless bowl of white earthenware with a matt yellow glaze, and with flat angled sides and has a brown stencilled geometric pattern.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Bowl
Materials and techniques
White earthenware with a yellow glaze, slightly crazed, sprayed, and stencilled
Earthenware
Glaze
Glazed
Stencilled
Sprayed
Brief description
Shallow rimless bowl of white earthenware with a matt yellow glaze, and with flat angled sides, made by Villeroy & Boch, Mettlach, ca.1930.
Physical description
Shallow rimless bowl of white earthenware with a matt yellow glaze, and with flat angled sides and has a brown stencilled geometric pattern.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 29.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Villeroy & Boch / Mettlach / Made in Sar-Basin' [within a cartouche surmounted by a figure in a winged helmet] (On base, printed in blue pigment (Maker's identification))
  • '6357' (On base, printed in blue pigment)
  • '36W' (On base, impressed)
  • ? '5747' (On base, impressed)
Credit line
Given by Matin Akhtar
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.6-2002

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Record createdApril 19, 2002
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O64886/bowl-villeroy--boch/
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