A medium size serving plate with color transfer-printed edge. Wide pink band and scene in center featuring "Shakespeare's House". May be part of the Parisian Pink china purchased by James Buchanan while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State from the French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt.
Provenance
Note: Most likely part of:
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
Molded earthenware sugar bowl with lid, pink surface coloring over pearl-colored body. Four applied feet and applied molded flat handles with molded foliate pattern. Floral finial at top of lid. Transfer printed design of butterflies, fruits, birds. Green enameled border pattern at waist of bowl. Pink lustre trim.
Pearlware bowl, thrown with applied scallopped edge and sprig ring ornament applied to sides. Handpainted and sponged Polychrome painted decoration, peacock motif. Labels on bottom removed, "Leeds Sugarbowl" and "15B"
Molded pearlware bowl (a) with lid (b). Hand painted and transfer printed Cobalt blue floral print decoration covers all of exterior. Two baskets with flowers on sides. Rectangular handles are part of the piece.
Glazed soft paste porcelain Gaudy Welsh sugar bowl (A) with lid (B). Handpainted inverted tulips of red and yellow are interspersed with 3 large, dominating deep blue scalloped motifs decorated with copper lustre painted floral decoration. Squat pot-bellied body sits on a low squarish pedestal with scalloped edging. Two molded angular applied handles. Top has round mouth with flared collar extends outward. Domed lid has squarish molded knob finial. Darkened remnant of paper sticker with blurred writing, perhaps "-caster/ --ea set/ --1825."
Provenance
Collected by Harpo and Susan Marx during visits back East from CA. Donated to Heritage Center.
Glazed soft paste porcelain bowl, hand-painted "Kings Rose" pattern decoration. Sitting on a footring , the bowl has steeply curving high sides. Decorated on opposing sides with the same design of a large red flower surrounded by smaller yellow flowers with rust petals and leaves.Interior design along rim are four pink flowers spaced around rim and linked by thin line banding, S-curves, and various round shapes. Center of bottom has one red flower with leaves.
Papers stickers underneath are: "Gaudy Dutch/ Kings Rose," then "18B" and finally a loan number "6.23.82" referring to the 1982 loan to the Heritage Center.
Small scratches and areas of paint loss, particularly the round, green "fruits" on inner rim. Inside discoloration, stains, soil. Some wear to foot ring. Rim has multiple tiny chips, abrasions and wear.
Creamware sugar bowl has apple shaped body with a flaring foot ring and rim. Both lid and bowl are decorated by hand with wide bands of blue and thin rings of red. Sides of bowl have blue flower alternating with smaller leaf sprigs. Lid has low dome topped with a knob resembling a pepperment life saver. Three leaf sprigs spaced around the knob on dome.
Paper sticker on bottom has pencil inscription: "no./ ace/ no".
Reportedly used by donor's great-great-grandmother, Sally, wife of Andrew Ellicott.
A 3 1/2" long section of rim is broken off. One broken piece saved in bowl. Extremely strong brown stain covers most of bowl except for several patches. Same stains sprinkled around bottom of lid. Glazing imperfections such as on top of lid. A 1 3/4" long hairline crack extends up side from base. Dark soil adhering to bottom of foot ring. Bowl has some wear around shoulder.
