salt
- Museum number
- 1894,0309.32
- Description
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Bowl salt; square; grey salt-glazed stoneware; cobalt-blue, manganese decoration; circular bowl supported by panels; relief pairs of birds (parrots?) perched on trellis (heart) work; set on square base.
- Production date
- 1735-1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 65 millimetres (bowl)
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Height: 86 millimetres
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Width: 72 millimetres (base)
- Curator's comments
- Gaimster 1997
Salt
c. 1735-50
Bowl salt supported on four sides by moulded panels resting on a square base. Salt-glazed light grey stoneware with cobalt-blue painted decoration.
The four sides of the salt moulded with the same pair of birds perched on trelliswork. The bowl of the salt with dashes of cobalt-blue around the rim.
H: 86 mm
COMP: Ohm, A. & Bauer, M. 1977, Steinzeug und Zinn, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt-am-Main, cat. 137; and Reineking-von Bock, G. 1986, Steinzeug, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln IV, Cologne, 3rd edition; 1st edition 1971, cat. 716, for further Westerwald examples using the same moulds; von Falke, O. 1908, Das Rheinische Steinzeug (2 volumes), Berlin (reprint Osnabrück 1997), II, pl. XXVIb, for jardinière dated 1732, with same applied birds and trelliswork.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1894,0309.32
