Bowl

Bristol

About 1720

  • Titles Bowl (Descriptive)
  • Artist Bristol, England
  • Medium tin-glazed earthenware
  • Dimensions 2 3/4 x 7 in. Diam. (7 x 17.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.63.1998
  • Work Type bowl
  • Classification Containers

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Bust in profile left.
Small asparagus shell, or server, of white soft-paste porcelain with low vertical, scalloped sides that taper towards one end, open at both ends to allow bundles of asparagus spears to be contained inside, the interior printed in underglaze blue in a variation of the Caughley "Temple" pattern, the border above comprised of a series of blue squares with round reserves and blue dots.
Lilac, blue, and white
Lilac and white jasperware cover probably for a teapot with glazed inside.