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Chinese export porcelain fishbowl in a camphor wood stand, the very large and heavy bowl has deep straight sides with 1 3/4" rim; with underglaze blue and white "Canton" decoration to the interior, and underglaze blue branches of prunus blossoms painted on the outsides. The bowl is resting on its original camphor wood stand, round with squared sides on four turned cylindrical legs and rounded dark stained disk feet. Originally used as a fishbowl, its secondary use, as set up in the Little household, was as a footbath.
fishbowls
porcelain
bentwood
camphorwood (wood)
painting (image-making)
hand-painted
molding (forming)
turning (shaping process)
underglazing
Canton (Chinese painting style)
Porcelain
Camphor
Bentwood
Painted
Turned
Molded
Underglazed
Canton
FISHBOWL/FOOTBATH
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13.25 (H), 29.75 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1184
Winchester, Alice. "Living with Antiques", Antiques Magazine, Feb.1969. [No Publisher].
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