Sugar Caster
ca. 1740-ca. 1750 (made)
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Cylindrical sugar caster. Domed cover decorated with floral patterns in blue and red and pierced with rosette-shaped perforations, surmounted by a moulted finial. The body painted in colours with men in Chinese dress, buildings and plants
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours |
| Brief description | Tin-glazed earthenware sugar caster, made by Rouen pottery factory, France, ca. 1740-ca. 1750 |
| Physical description | Cylindrical sugar caster. Domed cover decorated with floral patterns in blue and red and pierced with rosette-shaped perforations, surmounted by a moulted finial. The body painted in colours with men in Chinese dress, buildings and plants |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'H' [?] painted in dark green |
| Credit line | Given by J. H. Fitzhenry |
| Object history | Acquisition type: Gift |
| Production | Acquired as Rouen, mid-18th century; labelled as Rouen, c. 1750 in 1953. For a comparable Rouen caster see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 35. |
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| Accession number | C.635-1909 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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