Sugar bowl
ca. 1720
The 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.
Böttger porcelain
2 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
Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson
69.173
Provenance: Collection 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: Susan Dirk