Porringer

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Porringer

Datec. 1685–1695

Probable placeLondon, England

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delftware)

Dimensions2 3/8 × 7 3/8 × 5 5/8 in. (6 × 18.7 × 14.3 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by the Bayou Bend Docent Organization Endowment Fund in memory of Bayou Bend docent Henri Gadbois

Object numberB.2019.1

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Bayou Bend

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DescriptionMost English delftware of the 1600s and 1700s features a lead-glazed earthenware body whitened with tin oxide intended to imitate Chinese porcelain. Near the end of the 1600s, English potters began to produce delftware with a solid blue ground. They were influenced by the work of French potters from Nevers, who in turn looked to wares produced in Persia as early as the 1300s. Most “blue Persan” delftware was decorated in one of two ways: with abstract, gestural splashes of white spots or with carefully drawn white floral or pictorial images. Bayou Bend’s porringer falls into the latter category, featuring on both its interior and exterior a seated figure in a landscape among rocky outcroppings and grassy hillocks.
Provenance[Jonathan H. Horne, London, 1986]; purchased by Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; consigned to [Sotheby’s, New York, January 19, 2019, sale N10003, lot 723]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
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Label on base: The Collection of / Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III [with image of flowers in center]

Label on base: #464

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