Sugar bowl
Vienna Porcelain Factory
Category
Ceramics
Date
1816 - 1822
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
170 mms (Height); 116 mms (Diameter)
Place of origin
Vienna
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 353336.2.1
Summary
Sugar bowl or centrepiece. Raised on 3 gilt sphinxes on circular gilt base. Body of sugar bowl decorated on outside with border of naturalistic flowers on gilt ground. Marked in blue with shield, impressed 816 and 25. Part of breakfast set, hard-paste porcelain, painted with a band of naturalistic flowers on a gilt ground. Vienna, Austria, c.1816-22.
Provenance
Possibly a gift of Amelia Anne Hobart (Emily), Marchioness of Londonderry (1772-1829), wife of Robert Stewart, Vicsount Castlereagh (1769-1822), later 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, who negotiated a peace treaty of Vienna in 1815. Part of the Lothian Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by Philip, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940).
Marks and inscriptions
Base: Blue shield Impressed 816 / 25
Makers and roles
Vienna Porcelain Factory, porcelain manufacturer