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Waste Bowl

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1760

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.115

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 1

DescriptionThis is a Chinoiserie Waste Bowl. Printed in black and enameled in iron-red, green, purple, blue and yellow on the front with a Chinese gentleman and lady seated at a table set with coffee wares while an attendant nearby holds a coffee pot, to the left a caillouté-patterned jar, the reverse with a youth standing between vessels on a table and a basket, and the center of the interior with a lady standing between jars and a garden seat beneath a black enamel line around the rim edge.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II