Cake bowl (part of a service)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
ca. 1758–69 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The gilding on these pieces (see 54.163.7a, b–.34) is of a very high order, with tooled work on a thick application of honey gilding selectively matte and burnished for a lively design of pheasants, peacocks, and swallows in a landscape. The deep bowl was for little cakes.
- Artist
- Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
- Date
- ca. 1758–69
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- British, Chelsea
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, in memory of Francis P. Garvan, 1954
