1408
1408m
1408a
1408c
Tea bowl — CRC# 1408
- Description
- A rare Bristol tea bowl from the William Cowles Service, finely painted in coloured enamels with a bold spray of flowers and leaves, and scattered flowers, and with conjoined initials in gilt ‘WC’, within a laurel roundel, gilt dentil rims, circa 1774, no mark. From the service ordered by William Cowles of 33 Castle Green, Bristol, who was a Quaker and a friend of both Champion and Harford. The majority of this service is in the Lady Charlotte Schreiber Collection, in the Victoria and Albert Museum. See the Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition, 1970, number 91c, for another tea bowl and saucer from this service.
- Service
- William Cowles
- Size
- 8,2cm diameter at rim, 4.7cm high
- Condition
- Perfect
- Mark
- No mark
- Mark Group
- No mark
- Decorator
- No mark
- CRC#
- 1408
- Type
- Tea bowl
1408b
Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0108 · 1873
An old cutting from Owen with a William Cowles cup
H0120 · 1873
William Cowles cup from the Edkins collection
H0099 · 1912
The William Cowles service
Source: The Alfred Trapnell Catalogue of Bristol and Plymouth Porcelain
H0023 · 1915
William Cowles cup and saucer from Priscilla Fry's Illustrations of Ceramic Art
H0131 · 1915
William Cowles service from the Schreiber collection
H0170 · 1947
William Cowles cup and saucer from E. MacGregor Duncan's collection
Source: Champion's Bristol Porcelain
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Service · S041
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Group · g1408
A fine tea bowl and saucer from the William Cowles service.
Saucer · 1408.1
A rare Bristol tea saucer from the William Cowles Service, finely painted in coloured enamels with a bold spray of flowers and leaves, and scattered flowers, and with conjoined initials in gilt ‘WC’, within a laurel roundel, gilt dentil rims, circa 1774, no mark. From the service ordered by William Cowles of 33 Castle Green, Bristol, who was a Quaker and a friend of both Champion and Harford. The majority of this service is in the Lady Charlotte Schreiber Collection, in the Victoria and Albert Museum. See the Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition, 1970, number 91c, for another tea bowl and saucer from this service.
