Basin
ca. 1760-1770 (made)
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Oval, the rim with moulded scrollwork picked out in pinkish red, the centre painted with flowers, and with manufacturing flaw masked by leaf painted in green and black
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours |
| Brief description | Tin-glazed earthenware basin, painted flowers, possibly made at Lunéville pottery factory, France, ca. 1760-1770 |
| Physical description | Oval, the rim with moulded scrollwork picked out in pinkish red, the centre painted with flowers, and with manufacturing flaw masked by leaf painted in green and black |
| Credit line | Purchased through the Bequest of Captain H. B. Murray |
| Object history | Bought from the Rosenheim Sale 3 May 1923, lot 218, where described as a Höchst rosewater ewer and dish (for ewer, which does not match, see C.251&A-1923) |
| Production | Catalogued as Höchst in the Rosenheim sale; acquired as Marseilles; examined in 1931 by Hans Haug, Director of Strasbourg Museum, who suggested an attribution to a Lorraine factory; reattributed to Lunéville, ca. 1760-80; for an example of the ewer attributed to Lunéville and dated 1760-70 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 108 (top); however, the painting on this basin does not match the ewer. |
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| Accession number | C.251B-1923 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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