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Two 'tobacco-leaf bowls' 1780 - 1810
Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels and gilt | 25.5 x 54.3 cm (diameter) | RCIN 72
China
Two 'tobacco-leaf bowls' 1780 - 1810
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A pair of bowls with rounded, spreading sides. Painted all over the outside and inside, in a style commonly known as ‘tobacco-leaf’ pattern, with a design of overlapping leaves and flowers in rich colours; the rim gilt.
These bowls were received from Captain John Barnett Sotheby (b.1777), who was captain of the East Indiaman Scaleby Castle, which journeyed to China in 1818–19 and 1820–21 (India Office Records (BLL/MAR/B/34L and 34M) and Private Papers). See also RCIN 26105 for his other donation towards the furnishing of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume II.
Provenance
Presented to George IV by Captain Sotheby, 1819.
Jutsham Dels I.330 records receiving from Captain Sotheby, ‘Case No 7 containing 2 Very Large Indian Bowls Enameled in Flowers. Yellow and Green Leaves’, sent to the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 6 November 1819 (Jutsham Recs II.83). Described in the Brighton Pavilion Inventory as ‘A pair of very large Bowls, richly enamelled throughout in leaves and flowers, twenty one inches [53.3 cm] over’ (1829B, p. 115), and sent to Buckingham Palace in March 1847 (1829A, p. 16).
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels and gilt
Measurements
25.5 x 54.3 cm (diameter)
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