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Details
- Date
- circa 1740
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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13.1 x 25.0 x 18.6 cm
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a - soup bowl, 6.3 x 25 x 17.6 cm
b - cover, 7.3 x 18.6 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2012.47.a-b
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Meissen
Works in the collection
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About
A covered bowl of this kind was used to serve light soups during the morning toilette or on other occasions when a light meal was required. The bowl would have had a matching porcelain stand. The handles are of a form deriving from silverware.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 18 (colour illus.). cat.no. 11
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