Description:
Oval porcelain bowl with four incurving rim edges and four curved pad feet. The interior is painted yellow, and the exterior painted with yellow roses on brown, yellow, beige, and aqua backgrounds. The bowl is marked in green, "Crown/BRC/BAVARIA" over the inscription in red, "Mrs. F. L. Frary/ 1906." This bowl was decorated by Mrs. F.L. Frary of Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1906. One of the biggest popular trends of the late 19th and early 20th century was china painting. Publications and magazines encouraged amateur women decorators to paint porcelains with their own designs or with those copied from books. The interest in china painting coincided with large shipments of white undecorated china arriving from France and Germany. Sometimes these china painters organized themselves into groups and clubs; and the porcelains were fired in at-home muffle kilns, just hot enough to fuse the enamels onto the glaze. There is a crack on one side of bowl about 1 1/2 inches long.
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