A massive canoe-shaped bowl and detachable stand

CIRCA 1790, DUBLIN OR CORK

Details

A massive canoe-shaped bowl and detachable stand
Circa 1790, Dublin or Cork
The bowl cut with ascending tiers of flutes beneath a band of diamonds within lozenges and a bevelled fan-cut Vandyck rim, the stand with a faceted baluster section above a collar, stepped square plinth and slightly domed circular foot with faceted rim (chips to rim of bowl and to stand, one large chip to underside and smaller chips to footrim)
19 5/8in. (50cm.) high

Literature

Dudley Westropp, op. cit., pl. 1 and Phelps Warren, op. cit., pl. A (frontispiece).

Lot Essay

Cf. Phelps Warren, op. cit. p. 91 for a discussion of the type and pp. 146-149 for a discussion of the Bute-Westropp correspondence. See the accompanying sketch for a design for this type of massive detachable bowl and stand drawn from that correspondence.

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