Highlights
Bowl
- Artist
- –
- Locality
- Central Franconia
- Date
- mid-19th century
- Material
- Earthenware, glazed
- Dimensions
- D. 39 cm
- Location
- Gallery 110
- Inventory Number
- 57/158
- Acquisition
- Acquired from private ownership in 1957
- Epoch
- Nineteenth Century
- Categories
- Ceramics
Description
The vessel is typical of the regional style of a bowl used for serving sauerkraut, but there is much more to it than that. The figurative painting on the base of the bowl shows a potter smoking his pipe while turning a vessel on his potter's wheel. The motif was probably inspired by a contemporary print. Depictions of professions were printed in large numbers from the 16th century onwards and were also very popular with craftsmen. They used the images to represent themselves in a figurative sense. The sauerkraut bowl was probably not made as a commissioned work for a customer, but as a showpiece for the master potter.
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