Description:
Chinese export porcelain bowl with fluted sides and fluted foot, decorated with a band of connected floral sprays around the middle of the outside. Elegantly fluted bowls like this example were used for serving salads. The publication of Johne Evelyn's "Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets" (London, 1699) indicated that salads had become increasingly popular by the late 17th century. Evelyn urged that the only salad bowl to be contemplated was "of Porcelane, or of Holland-Delft-Ware... Pewter or even Silver, not at all so well agreeing with Oyl and Vinegar, which leave their Several Tinctures." In the late 18th century earthenware pattern books, fluted bowls similar to this example are often designated as "sallad bowls." English creamware forms undoubtedly provided the prototype for this example in Chinese porcelain.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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