collection of Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
 

Shape Type: Breakfast & Tea Wares

Pattern Type: Literature, Classical, Mythology, and the Arts

Date: c. 1825-1830

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 6.81 in (17.30 cm)
  • Height: 3.66 in (9.30 cm)

Maker: John & William Ridgway

Maker's Mark:

Painted
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Description:

A bone china slop bowl from a tea service; it is decorated with a purple printed design that appears on each side of the bowl.  The pattern depicts a young woman on a seesaw balanced at the other end by cupid, perhaps symbolic of the ups and downs of love!

Painted in red on the base is a fractional pattern number, typical of those found...


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