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Tea bowl
Tea bowl, pearlware with a bluish tinge to the glaze, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides with reeding around the lower body; the upper half of the exterior body decorated with a wide band of marbled slip in shades of brown, black and pale blue in imitation of granite, a narrow gilt band and a black and white chequered border. Narrow cracks to the body.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35863
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1795-1800 ca
Acquisition
Exchange, 15/3/1916
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.3
diam
(cm): 8.3
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
slip-decorated
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
slip
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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