Bowl
Staffordshire, England
1810-1830
Measurements
3-1/8 in x 6-1/4 in (dia)
Materials
Enameled and glazed white earthenware
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of Barbara Seningen
Accession Number
2023.93
Condition Notes
The bowl has two minor chips in the bottom of the foot.
Provenance
The donor is a descendant of the Collins family associated with the Collins-Sharp House.
Comments
The molded round bowl stands on a foot ring. The outside is boldly decorated in shades of orange, green, yellow, and blue, depicting a large carnation with a smaller five-petaled flower and a blue-and-yellow flower. A large blue and yellow loop shaped roughly like an oyster gives this pattern its name among collectors. The inside rim of the bowl has a wide band of rectangular panels of floral motifs that alternate. A related floral spray decorates the inside bottom.
The palette and the bold presentation identifies it among collectors as “Gaudy Dutch,” although this type of ceramic pottery has no relationship to other Dutch wares. The bowl is coated in a blue-tinted glaze meant to impart a cool white tone to the white earthenware that imitated fine Chinese porcelains. The glaze has pooled in areas around the outside bottom. Such earthenwares were marketed by their Staffordshire makers as “pearlware.”
