Period:Unknown Production date:1573-1619 (bowl)
Materials:porcelain, silver,
Technique:painted, gilded, mould-made, stamped,
Dimensions:Height: 9.60 centimetres Length: 19.60 centimetres Width: 15.70 centimetres
Description:
Bowl of Chinese porcelain; mounted in silver-gilt; bowl painted in full grey-blue; outside are four groups, almost identical, representing cranes and plants on a vase, and inside is a similar group. The mounts consist of a rim connected with the foot by four straps, with two handles formed of winged female caryatid figures. The rim-mount is ornamented with a modified egg-and-tongue pattern; the straps have scalloped edges and bear a series of squares, each containing a formal rose; the bas ehas on the moulding a formal acanthus pattern. Maker’s mark.
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Comments:Text from Read and Tonnochy 1928, ‘Catalogue of Silver Plate’ (Franks Bequest): The bowl is a typical example of the porcelain of the sixteenth century, no doubt of the period of the Chinese emperor Wan-li (1573-1619). It might be German, judging from the maker’s mark, but the rim-mount of this piece is almost identical with the foot-mount of a mounted ‘Rhodian’ jug also in the British Museum collection, which bears the London hall-mark of 1597.A similar bowl, also of the Wan-li period, with English mounts of the second half of the sixteenth century, in the collection of the Baron and Baroness Bruno Schröder, was exhibited at the Exhibition of Elizabethan art at the Burlington Fine Arts Club (‘Catalogue’, p. 63, Case I, London, 1926; and ‘Old Furniture’, I, September 1927, p. 248). Two bowls of the same type in the Pierpont Morgan Collection may be noted (E. Alfred Jones, ‘Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esquire’, pl. vii, London, 1908).Could mount be Danish or German? Compare National Museum Copenhagen, Christian IV and Europe 1988, nos. 906-7 for marked Copenhagen bowl with similar mounts and unmarked bowl with later mounts from Kunstkammer.
Materials:porcelain, silver,
Technique:painted, gilded, mould-made, stamped,
Dimensions:Height: 9.60 centimetres Length: 19.60 centimetres Width: 15.70 centimetres
Description:
Bowl of Chinese porcelain; mounted in silver-gilt; bowl painted in full grey-blue; outside are four groups, almost identical, representing cranes and plants on a vase, and inside is a similar group. The mounts consist of a rim connected with the foot by four straps, with two handles formed of winged female caryatid figures. The rim-mount is ornamented with a modified egg-and-tongue pattern; the straps have scalloped edges and bear a series of squares, each containing a formal rose; the bas ehas on the moulding a formal acanthus pattern. Maker’s mark.
IMG
Comments:Text from Read and Tonnochy 1928, ‘Catalogue of Silver Plate’ (Franks Bequest): The bowl is a typical example of the porcelain of the sixteenth century, no doubt of the period of the Chinese emperor Wan-li (1573-1619). It might be German, judging from the maker’s mark, but the rim-mount of this piece is almost identical with the foot-mount of a mounted ‘Rhodian’ jug also in the British Museum collection, which bears the London hall-mark of 1597.A similar bowl, also of the Wan-li period, with English mounts of the second half of the sixteenth century, in the collection of the Baron and Baroness Bruno Schröder, was exhibited at the Exhibition of Elizabethan art at the Burlington Fine Arts Club (‘Catalogue’, p. 63, Case I, London, 1926; and ‘Old Furniture’, I, September 1927, p. 248). Two bowls of the same type in the Pierpont Morgan Collection may be noted (E. Alfred Jones, ‘Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esquire’, pl. vii, London, 1908).Could mount be Danish or German? Compare National Museum Copenhagen, Christian IV and Europe 1988, nos. 906-7 for marked Copenhagen bowl with similar mounts and unmarked bowl with later mounts from Kunstkammer.
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