Eight-sided potiche

Inventory number: St 257

Around the bottom of the neck runs a lobed frieze with an alternating pattern of a white semicircle and a striped red semicircle. The shoulder has a frieze of stylised plant motifs (palmettes, garlands, etc.), some of which are set in symmetric cut-out valences. On the foot: the same type of decoration as on the shoulder, but pointing upwards and smaller.

Material:

Creamware

Technique:

Slip-cast form. Decoration with printed contours, underglaze painted in cobalt and red on a white ground.

Workshop:

Boch. La Louvière

Form number:

(3) illegible impressed marks

Decoration number:

319/D & 3 in blue

Date:

Around 1885

Marks:

Blue monogram: BFK

Dimensions:

H : 258 - C : 54 - B : 84

Location:

Keramis, La Louvière

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