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Description: | Deep circular punch bowl with sloping sides tapering to curved well on prominent, slightly tapered footring. Decorated with a pale blue tin-glaze, painted with white bianco-sopra-bianco borders of scrolling foliage between four diamond diaper quatrefoils inside rim; flowers, foliage and pine cones around outside rim. Well painted in cobalt blue with a ship in full sail, flying the Swedish flag in yellow and blue, with gun ports along the side picked out in red. Inscription in blue around side reads 'SKIEPET:WIGELANTIA:AF.STA.PELN.2 STOKHOLM:1728:2 BRISTOL.I:DOCKAN:1765.2 IANUARY.I.P.C.'. Exterior side beneath white border painted in cobalt blue with continuous rural landscape comprising a lake with two men in a boat; a figure on dry land watching them; two cows reclining; a man and woman conversing with trees and houses in the distance; a woman carrying a basket on her head. Plain footring with glaze-free rim.
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: thrown
Material: tin-glazed
Material: painted in-glaze
Material: cobalt blue
Material: bianco-sopra-bianco
bowl & punch bowl by John Bowen, Joseph Flower, 1765, (1923.240). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2465 | Go to resource |
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