Brooklyn Museum: Decorative Arts: Salad Bowl

Salad Bowl

Manufacturer: Union Porcelain Works, 1863-ca.1922
Medium: Porcelain
Place Manufactured: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dates: ca. 1885
Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (8.9 x 25.1 x 25.1 cm)
Markings: On underside: transfer-printed in yellow, "[within urn] UNION / PORCELAIN / WORKS / GREENPOINT / N.Y." and below urn "10 '85"
Signature: no signature
Inscriptions: no inscriptions
Collections: Decorative Arts
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th floor
Accession Number: 68.87.1
Credit Line: Gift of Franklin Chace
Image: Overall, 68.87.1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: White porcelain salad bowl, with vitreous glaze; part of green and white dinner service (68.87.1-13). Deep round bowl with flared rim raised on foot rim. Applied decorations: in center of bowl, naturalistically painted head of cabbage; around inner edge of bowl, gilded band and border of ribbon and tassel design interspersed with three roundels containing stylized fleur-de-lis in green and gold; gilded band around edge of base. CONDITION - Good.

Collections: Decorative Arts: Salad Bowl