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Slop bowl
Slop-bowl, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a tall foot rim, flared body, everted lip, decorated on either side with two groups of chinoiserie figures, one of a seated adult cooking, one child kneeling and two playing, the other of two chinoiserie figures, one seated and one kneeling by an elaborated fountain, each scene in a gilt and purple lustre cartouche surrounded by iron-red and brown scrolling, in between are two smaller painted scenes, one of a pot and the other of a rock, gilt band to rim, inner surface with a single elongated chinoiserie figure next to two vertical grape vines surrounded by a cartouche and scrolling, ornamental border to lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33269
Creation/Production
Meissen
Date: 1725 ca.
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8
diam
(cm): 17.2
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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