Soup Bowl
ca. 1745 (made)
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Soup bowl, cover and stand of hard-paste porcelain. Relief-moulded with Altozier pattern with quatrefoil reserves. Cover knob separately modelled as a pink with foliage. Two handles as a scroll clasping a floral spray. Reserves painted with 'Watteau' figures against gilt skies, the saucer centre with a spray of European flowers. Knob and handles coloured naturalistically. Gilt rims.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain with decoration moulded in relief, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Soup bowl, cover and stand, hard-paste porcelain with decoration moulded in relief, painted in enamels and gilt, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1745 |
| Physical description | Soup bowl, cover and stand of hard-paste porcelain. Relief-moulded with Altozier pattern with quatrefoil reserves. Cover knob separately modelled as a pink with foliage. Two handles as a scroll clasping a floral spray. Reserves painted with 'Watteau' figures against gilt skies, the saucer centre with a spray of European flowers. Knob and handles coloured naturalistically. Gilt rims. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Crossed swords (Factory mark, in blue) |
| Object history | Formerly in the Exmouth Collection. |
| Production | Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
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| Accession number | 273 to B-1876 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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