Bowl
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
1840-1855
Maker
John Ridgway & Co. (c. 1830-1855)
Measurements
3-3/8 in x 5-5/8 in (dia)
Materials
Transfer-printed white earthenware
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of H. Rodney Sharp
Accession Number
1959.3741
Condition Notes
The bowl is stained and displays craquelure.
Provenance
Ex coll. H. Rodney Sharp
Comments
This small, deep bowl with fourteen faint facets or panels around the outside is transfer-printed in a medium blue (not the earlier darker blue) in the “University” pattern. It shows a man, two women, and a dog stand at the pillered entrance to a large institutional building. Three smaller versions of the building are spaced within a lattice with scrolled top border and decorate the inside border of the bowl. A medium-sized version of the center part of the building is printed on the inside bottom.
The bowl may have accompanied a tea service.
