Rice Dish
ca.1870-ca.1917 (made)
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Circular rice dish on turned foot-ring (diameter 24.5 cm, height 5 cm); the interior painted in orange and iron red enamels with bands with reserved panels containing enamelled and gilt sprigs, and with concentric bands and stylised sprigs, the enamelling enhanced in places with finely painted linear gilding; the underside plain.
The base is printed in black with an inscription in Arabic (probably the factory mark, Arabic versions of which were introduced in about 1890) within a geometrical cartouche; there are also traces of an impressed factory mark of imperial eagle and factory name in Cyrillic and '3' impressed Painted pattern number '52.' in iron red enamel, and painted workman's mark of a dot in cobalt blue, both inside foot-ring.
Condition: Gilding rubbed
The base is printed in black with an inscription in Arabic (probably the factory mark, Arabic versions of which were introduced in about 1890) within a geometrical cartouche; there are also traces of an impressed factory mark of imperial eagle and factory name in Cyrillic and '3' impressed Painted pattern number '52.' in iron red enamel, and painted workman's mark of a dot in cobalt blue, both inside foot-ring.
Condition: Gilding rubbed
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, thrown and turned and with clear glaze, painted in puce enamels and gilt and with printed and impressed marks |
| Brief description | Rice dish, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, pattern number 52 and printed mark in Arabic in black, made by and with the impressed mark of the Gardner Porcelain factory, Moscow, about 1890-1917 |
| Physical description | Circular rice dish on turned foot-ring (diameter 24.5 cm, height 5 cm); the interior painted in orange and iron red enamels with bands with reserved panels containing enamelled and gilt sprigs, and with concentric bands and stylised sprigs, the enamelling enhanced in places with finely painted linear gilding; the underside plain. The base is printed in black with an inscription in Arabic (probably the factory mark, Arabic versions of which were introduced in about 1890) within a geometrical cartouche; there are also traces of an impressed factory mark of imperial eagle and factory name in Cyrillic and '3' impressed Painted pattern number '52.' in iron red enamel, and painted workman's mark of a dot in cobalt blue, both inside foot-ring. Condition: Gilding rubbed |
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| Credit line | Presented by Lewis Baxter through Art Fund |
| Object history | Made for the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Market and acquired by the donor in Iran |
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| Accession number | C.25-2004 |
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| Record created | April 26, 2004 |
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