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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Sugar Bowl and Cover

ca. 1790-1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Langnau (made)
Switzerland (made)

Depressed globular form with three scroll feet and three attached ring handles. The lid has a four-scrolled finial touched with green and yellow. Painted with scrolls in white slip.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Slipware
Object type
Sugar bowl and cover
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Sugar Bowl
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Slipware
Slip
Earthenware
Brief description
Red earthenware covered with a red slip and decorated with white slip and colours under a clear yellowish glaze. Swiss (Langnau), about 1790 to 1810.
Physical description
Depressed globular form with three scroll feet and three attached ring handles. The lid has a four-scrolled finial touched with green and yellow. Painted with scrolls in white slip.
Dimensions
  • Taken from register height: 6 1/4in
  • Taken from register diameter: 4 5/8in
Gallery label
  • Sugar bowl, Switzerland (Langnau), about 1790-1810 C.37+a-1932 Rev. G.A.S. Schneider Bequest(2010 (TAB))
  • Sugar-bowl and cover lead-glazed earthenware Swiss (Heimberg); late 18th century Rev. G.A.S. Schneider Bequest(1953)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. G. A. S. Schneider
Object history
At the time of acquisition, this sugar bowl was considered to have been made in Heimberg.
There are known examples of this type of sugar bowl (or 'sugar box') from 1798 into the 1830s.
Bibliographic references
  • Adriano Boschetti-Maradi, Gefasskeramik und Hafnerei in der Fruhen Neuzeit im Kanton Bern, Verlag Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, 2006
  • Rackham, Bernard, Catalogue of the Glaisher collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987, 2 vols.
  • Wyss, Robert L., Berner Bauernkeramik, 1966
  • Alt Langnau-Topferei, Bern, 1928
  • Gastronomy and Old Tableware in Switzerland, Swiss National Tourist Office, Zurich, 1956
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.37A-1942

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Record createdJanuary 25, 2007
Record URL
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