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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Bowl

ca.1870-ca.1917 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Hemi-spherical bowl on a tall foot-ring (diameter 18.6 cm, height 18.7 cm); the exterior painted front and back in two shades of puce enamel with symmetrical pattern of plant ornament; the rim and foot-ring are picked out with gilding (now rubbed) and the interior is painted in the same palette with a narrow band with a repeating pattern of geometrical and stylised floral ornament, and the centre of the bowl with a sprig.
The base has the printed factory mark in iron red of the imperial eagle (indicating the imperial warrant) above the St George and the dragon (for Moscow), the latter contained within an oval band with the factory name and Moscow in Cyrillic.
Painted pattern number '191' in puce enamel inside foot-rim. Condition: gilding rubbed.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, thrown and turned and with clear glaze, painted in puce enamels and gilt
Brief description
Bowl, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, pattern number 191, made by and with the factory mark of the Gardner Porcelain factory, Moscow, about 1870-1917
Physical description
Hemi-spherical bowl on a tall foot-ring (diameter 18.6 cm, height 18.7 cm); the exterior painted front and back in two shades of puce enamel with symmetrical pattern of plant ornament; the rim and foot-ring are picked out with gilding (now rubbed) and the interior is painted in the same palette with a narrow band with a repeating pattern of geometrical and stylised floral ornament, and the centre of the bowl with a sprig.
The base has the printed factory mark in iron red of the imperial eagle (indicating the imperial warrant) above the St George and the dragon (for Moscow), the latter contained within an oval band with the factory name and Moscow in Cyrillic.
Painted pattern number '191' in puce enamel inside foot-rim. Condition: gilding rubbed.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 18.6cm
  • Height: 18.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '191' (painted pattern number, in puce enamel inside foot-rim)
  • the imperial eagle above the St George and the dragon, the latter contained within an oval band with the factory name and Moscow in Cyrillic (printed factory mark in iron red of the imperial eagle, indicating the imperial warrant above the St George and the dragon (for Moscow), the latter contained within an oval band with the factory name and Moscow in Cyrillic)
Credit line
Presented by Lewis Baxter through Art Fund
Object history
Made for the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Market and acquired by the donor in Iran
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.23-2004

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Record createdApril 26, 2004
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