Vegetable dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
100 mm (Height); 255 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Luneville
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 636711
Summary
A vegtable dish. Part of a French white glazed earthenware dinner service of slightly lobed and undulating form, with pink lining and painted with sprays of pink, yellow, purple and blue flowers and consisting of two covered vegetable dishes, two sauce boats (and three covers) and fifteen dinner plates. Vegetable dish a) of undulating circular form, raised on four moulded feet and with two moulded opposed handles heightened with pink, the whole lined and painted with two sprays and four single flowers. Marks; printed in underglaze sepia, 'CHINA' above a crown over a coat of arms with 'K' and 'G' to either side and 'LUNEVILLE' below. Travelling cracks.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.