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The "Canada Bowl"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactoryc.1724-1725

Gardiner Museum

Gardiner Museum
Toronto, Canada

An early Meissen circular bowl. The exterior painted probably by J.G. Horoldt with trappers, a basket of fruit, a deer, and a fox and others with fish and a fox. Their clothes are trimmed in fur in estuary landscape with enriched Böttger-lustre, iron-red, gold and buff cartouches, with indianische Blumen between. The interior has two Chinoiserie figures beside a fence and a pagoda by J. E. Stadler. The rim has gilt scrolls.

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  • Title: The "Canada Bowl"
  • Creator: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
  • Date Created: c.1724-1725
  • Physical Dimensions: Overall: 8.2 x 15.5 cm (3 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
  • Medium: Hard-paste porcelain with Böttger lustre, overglaze enamels, gilding
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