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Sugar bowl

Dateca. 1720

MakerDecoration attributed to Ignaz Preissler Breslau (present-day Wroclaw, Poland), ca. 1725-30

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