Sugar box with lid
| Accession Nr.: | 1691.a-b |
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| Date of production: |
ca. 1780
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| Place of production: | Stomfa (Stupava) |
| Inscription: | alján kobaltkékkel: ST |
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| Materials: | faience |
| Techniques: | polychrome painting |
| Dimensions: |
height: 5,3 cm
diameter: 9 x 12,8 cm
base diameter: 6 x 9 cm
height: 4,5 cm
diameter: 10,2 x 13,5 cm
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The oval box is ribbed, with a wavy rim on the bowl and the cover. The finial of the cover is a relief, polychrome fruit with leaves. The bowl and cover are painted with large bunches of fruit on the longer and with smaller ones on the shorter sides, with a purple rose and other flowers, and with small, scattered flowers painted in purple, green, yellow, blue and iron-red. The faience works of Stomfa used local clay and quartz of excellent quality the painting shows the influence of Holies. Marked on the bottom: T, twined with and S, in cobalt.
Literature
- Szerk.: Szilágyi András, Péter Márta: Barokk és rokokó. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1990. - Nr. 6.106. (Weiner Piroska)
