Basic info

Collection

Decorative Arts

Object name

Tea bowl

Saucer

Object category

Domestic and family life

Ceramic

Object subcategory

Food, drink and tobacco

Factory ceramic

Creators

Caughley Porcelain Works (Pottery)

Description

Tea bowl and saucer with transfer printing decoration in underglaze blue with European / western landscapes within round and oval cartouches. Similar motifs are repeated on the large border below the rim. This pattern still contains an element of Chinoiserie seen in the boat and the bridge, the diaper and the fret work on the border. However the landscape is very much western and denotes the late eighteenth century shift towards more European decoration. See YORCM : 2007.423 for similar pattern of Chinoiserie motifs from an earlier period.

Production date start

1785

Production date end

1790

Period

Georgian