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Description: | -The collection of ceramics is about 4,500 items with the full range of European wares from 1500 -1870. The collection comprises those of Josephine Bowes, Susan Davidson and Enid Goldblait and has Italian Maiolica ( 200 pieces) with a rare potter's sample plate of 1577; French and German Faience (1,000 pieces-the best outside the V&A); Dutch delftware (500 pieces - again the best outside the V&A); French soft paste porcelain from St Cloud, Mennecy, Vincennes, and Sevres (1,000 pieces) including a teapot of 1758 decorated with a peacock on the rose Pompadour ground, 6 plates from the Marquis de Semonville's ambassadorial service of 1792; Paris wares from the short-lived factiories of the Revolutionary period and an early documentary cabaret set from Limoges; German porcelain from Meissen, Frankenthal and Ludwigsburg and porcelain from Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Scandinavia, Russia, Switzerland and Britain. Also some exhibition pieces from the Paris and London Exhibitions of 1867 and 1871. The Enid Goldblait collection added 500 pieces of European wares in 1988. There is a small but significant collection of 500 English ceramics from 1700-1850, some rare, and 1,000 pieces of Oriental export porcelain from Susan Davidson, Bowes' cousin, in 1878.
Publications include;-
Conran, E The Bowes Museum, 1992, Scala, London
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01833 637163 | Telephone: | 01833 690606 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6082 | Go to resource |
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