New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Waste Bowl

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1765

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.11

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 6

DescriptionThis is a 'Bird in a Ring' Pattern Waste Bowl. Painted on the front with a bird singing within a circular perch beside a jardinière on a table between flowering plants and stylized rocks, the reverse with a bird in flight, and the interior with a central rock device beneath a trellis diaper border around the rim, crescent mark in underglaze-blue.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II Published ReferencesLawrence Branyan, Neal French and John Sandon, _Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790_ (London: Barrie & Jenkins, Ltd., 1989), 160, pattern number I.C.14.