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Sugar Bowl and Cover

1780-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sugar bowl and cover of hard-paste porcelain, of lobed shape, painted in underglaze blue, red enamel and gilded with Chinese 'Imari' style garden motifs, including flowering plants, fences and rocks.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Sugar Box
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue, enamels and gilded
Brief description
Sugar bowl and cover of hard-paste porcelain, decorated in Chinese 'Imari' style, made at the Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, 1780-1800.
Physical description
Sugar bowl and cover of hard-paste porcelain, of lobed shape, painted in underglaze blue, red enamel and gilded with Chinese 'Imari' style garden motifs, including flowering plants, fences and rocks.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm
  • Diameter: 11.4cm
Style
Gallery label
(ca. 1995)
SUGAR BOWL AND COVER
Porcelain, in Japanese "Imari" style
ITALY (DOCCIA); about 1765
Gift of Lt.-Col. K. Dingwall D.S.O.
through the National Art-Collections Fund
C.498 & A-1921
(Label draft attributed to John V. G. Mallet, ca. 1995)
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014 p. 82, Cat. 61 61. Sugar bowl and cover with oriental decoration circa 1780-1800 hard-paste porcelain with tin-glaze painted in colours and gold h 11 cm; length 10,8 cm a paper label states that it is attributed to the Vezzi factory inv. C.498&A-1921 gift: Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO through The Art Fund A coffee pot and sugar bowl with an oriental floral decoration in blue, red and gold. The decoration has numerous freely interpreted oriental elements: two flowering vines that end in a kiku, or chrysanthemum flower in red and climbing on a taihu or rock in blue, a hint of a fence, perhaps recalling an “enclosed garden”. There are several possible sources that the painters at Doccia might have used for this decoration: the Arita Japanese porcelain of the early 18th century (L.ZENONE PADULA, in VIAGGIO INOCCIDENTE 1992, p. 263, cat. 96), Chinese porcelain of the Quing dynasty (L. ZENONE PADULA, in VIAGGIO IN OCCIDENTE 1992, p. 176, cat. 31 and p. 185, cat. 41), or the copies of these that were being produced by many European manufacturers of maiolica and porcelain. The shape of the sugar bowl and the coffee pot, in particular, its flat cover and simple decoration and the presence of masso bastardo (see formasso bastardo cat. 63) as the ceramic material, suggest a date to the final years of the 18th century. A.B. Bibliography: unpublished
Collection
Accession number
C.498&A-1921

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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