Bowl and Cover

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

Bowl and cover of red earthenware covered with buff and cream slips and painted in brown under a clear glaze. Painted on the outside with horizontal bands of dark brown on a buff ground. The inside is cream. Depressed globular shape with crescent shaped lugs.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl
  • Cover, for Bowl
Materials and techniques
Earthenware covered with buff and cream slips and painted in brown under a clear glaze
Brief description
Bowl and cover of red earthenware covered with buff and cream slips and painted in brown under a clear glaze. Swiss (Heimberg), about 1870.
Physical description
Bowl and cover of red earthenware covered with buff and cream slips and painted in brown under a clear glaze. Painted on the outside with horizontal bands of dark brown on a buff ground. The inside is cream. Depressed globular shape with crescent shaped lugs.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.7cm
  • Diameter: 12.7cm
Credit line
Given by H. M. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
Object history
H.M.C. Loan no.77
Other number
HMC.77 - H.M.C. Loan no.
Collection
Accession number
C.612&A-1921

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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