Collection Highlights
Four Portraits of North American Indians; verso: sketch of brave riding a horse and shooting a bow and arrow
1859
1941.1209
Oil on gray marbleized prepared heavy textured paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Bowl
Object name
Bowl
Date
1790-1820; 1815-1827
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 2 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 3 7/8 in. ( 5.7 x 11.4 x 9.8 cm )
Description
Molded porcelain tea set consisting of a porcelain footed bowl; all pieces are hand painted with blue scalloped borders with sets of two peach flowers and gold outlines with gold stylized floral and foliate sprays, grapes, palmettes; holloware forms have additional band of undulating vine with leaves and flowers, in gold and gold flourishes on handles.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mary MacKaye Greenwood
Object Number
1969.11i
Marks
printed: in red on base in script: "Spode/3904"
printed: in red on base in script: "Spode/3904"
printed: in lavendar on base: "Spode[enclosed within two floral sprays]Felspar/Porcelain" and in red "3904"
Gallery Label
According to the donor, the tea set belonged to Elizabeth (Weaver) Greenwood (1764-1831), wife of Dr. John Greenwood. The printed "SPODE" with pattern number was used from 1790-1820; the printed mark "C" was used from 1815-1827.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.