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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Bowl

ca. 1900-02 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

White earthenware bowl of half-spherical form supported on three curved legs. Decorated on the outside with a row of bosses just below the rim, and covered inside and out with thick blue and white glazes which have run and mottled in the firing. The legs which are curved and triangular in section, clear-glazed over the white body.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Glazed earthenware
Brief description
Footed bowl, white earthenware with clear, blue and white glaze, probably designed by Josef Hoffmann, Austrian, ca. 1900-02.
Physical description
White earthenware bowl of half-spherical form supported on three curved legs. Decorated on the outside with a row of bosses just below the rim, and covered inside and out with thick blue and white glazes which have run and mottled in the firing. The legs which are curved and triangular in section, clear-glazed over the white body.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.5cm
  • Diameter: 16.4cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Unmarked
Production
Attribution based on Neuwirth (1974).
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Greenhalgh, Paul (Ed.), Art Nouveau: 1890-1914 . London: V&A Publications, 2000
  • Neuwirth, Waltraud. Wiener Keramik. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1974, p370.
Collection
Accession number
C.6-1982

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Record createdJanuary 2, 2004
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