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Bowl (Salad bowl)
1805-1815
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
2010.0008.004
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Wilhelmina Laird Craven
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Object Number
2010.0008.004
Object Name
Bowl (Salad bowl)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1805-1815
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Rectangular, cream and silver paper label with "Matthew & Elisabeth Sharpe/ Antiques/ SPRING HILL, CONSHOHOCKEN, PENNSYLVANIA/ Chinese Export Porcelain/ Fitzhugh Pattern/ Circa 1800-1810" in blue ink and blue print
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Rectangular cream-colored paper label with "Cut-corner/ Square Salad/ Bowl, 9 3/4"/ C1810, $2200.00" in blue ink
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Rectangular, cream-colored paper label "on Sideboard" in blue ink
Mark/Signature: No
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
4.764 (H) x 5.591 (W) x 5.827 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
12.1 (H) x 14.2 (W) x 14.8 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Mudge, Jean McClure. 1986 Chinese Export Porcelain in North America. 300 p.
• Fitzhugh pattern and color range: p.211-212, fig. 342Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1974 Chinese Armorial Porcelain. 1.
• "True Fitzhugh" vs. Fitzhugh patterns with history: pp. 50-56, 151-122Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 2003 Chinese Armorial Porcelain. 2.
• "True Fitzhugh" vs. Fitzhugh patterns with blue, orange, green and other variations: pp. 510-45Book: Esten, John, et al. 1987 Blue & White China: Origins /Western Influences.
• Discussion of Fitzhugh and photographs of examples on p. 89Book: Emerson, Julie, et al. 2000 Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe.
• Modern underglaze blue-decorated bowl of similar form, before firing: p. 274, fig. 15, Canton type.Book: Lee, Jean Gordon. 1984 Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844. 193.
• Blue Fitzhugh service with Philadelphia history of ownership: pp. 168, 170, no. 172, owned by merchant Henry David Mandeville (1787–1878) and his wife Charlotte Stott Mandeville (1787–1835).