Bowl

Date1750-1755

Artist/Maker Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (1745-1769)

MediumSoft-paste porcelain

DimensionsH: 2 1/2"; Dia(points): 4 1/2"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1962-89

DescriptionOctagonal bowl with flaring raised edged rim, painted with brown line. Decorated in a monochrome purple landscape with a horseman in the middle ground whipping two laborers, in the background to the right, buildings among trees and to the left a castle across a river. The scene is bordered by two trees in the foreground and the reverse is painted with a rose.
Label TextA similar bowl--surviving as part of an incomplete, fable-decorated tea service--suggests that such pieces served as sugar bowls. However, none of the examples in museum collections has a cover and none shows the wear that a cover would cause. The purple monochrome landscape painting was derived from a style popular at Meissen from the Herold period twenty years earlier.
InscribedAnchor painted red and in relief on medallion applied to exterior base.
MarkingsNone
ProvenanceEx coll: M.G. Kaufman, Chicago