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Sugar bowl

Dateca. 1720

Label TextThe black monochrome Schwarzlot decoration on the covered sugar bowl combines motifs of leaf and strapwork (Laub und Bandelwerk) characteristic of baroque style. It incorporates fanciful Asian-style figures, a celebrated decorative element during the first half of the eighteenth century. On this bowl, another exotic individual joins the Asian-style figures-a stately American Indian is intricately engraved inside the sugar bowl.

Object number69.173

ProvenanceCollection of Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson, unknown purchase date until December 1969; gift from Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson to Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1969

Photo CreditPhoto: Susan Dirk

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe", February 17, 2000-May 7, 2000 (2/17/2000 - 5/7/2000)Published ReferencesEmerson, Julie. "Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Wares in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, no. 7, p. 19 Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates, "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe", Seattle Art Museum, 2000, pg. 139

Credit LineGift of Martha and Henry Isaacson

Dimensions2 1/16 in. (5.24 cm), bowl height 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm), overall height 4 5/16 in. (10.96 cm), diameter

MediumBöttger porcelain