Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
- Title
- Two handled soup bowl and cover
- Year
- circa 1740
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
bowl 6.3 x 25.0 x 17.6 cm; cover 7.3 x 18.6 cm diam; combined height 13.1 cm:
a - soup bowl; 6.3 x 25 x 17.6cm
b - cover; 7.3 x 18.6cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.47.a-b
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
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.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 18 (colour illus.). cat.no. 11
