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Slop bowl
Porcelain (hard-paste), enamel, gilt
1745-1760
Slop bowl
Slop bowl
Porcelain (hard-paste), enamel, gilt
1745-1760
Slop bowl Porcelain (hard-paste), enamel, gilt 1745-1760
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Label Text

This mid-eighteenth century tea and coffee set combines Eastern and Western innovations to create a sophisticated fashion statement: the fine porcelain bodies are Chinese but the engaging landscape scenes are copied from tablewares made at the Meissen factory in Germany. Its last private owner was a descendant of Martha Washington’s granddaughter, Eleanor “Nelly” Parke Custis Lewis, and it is possible that it was originally acquired by George and Martha Washington.

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Date1745-1760
Geography Made - China
DimensionsOverall (H x W x D): 2 9/16 in. x 4 3/4 in. x 4 3/4 in. (6.51 cm x 12.07 cm x 12.07 cm)
Credit LineAcquired through the generosity of Joseph and Anne Pellegrino, 2004
Object numberW-4359
DescriptionCircular slop bowl with a plain rim on a shallow foot ring, decorated in overglaze polychrome enamels in the famille rose palette and gilt. Two sides of the bowl feature a band of pink and orange feather-like scrollwork surrounding a brown and gilt frame containing a landscape scene with European-style buildings in the background and five workmen in the right foreground at bottom, two of which appear to be rolling a barrel or a bale. The rim interior exhibits traces of a gilt border of interlocking circles with pendants of three dots.


Published ReferencesChristie, Manson & Woods International Inc., Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints, and 20th Century Self-Taught and Outsider Art, Thursday 15 AND Friday 16 January 2004, Sales Catalogue 1279 (New York: Christie's, 2004), Lot # 516.
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