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| Figure 1 Covered bowl, East London, England, ca. 1744. Porcelain. H. 3 1/8". (Melbourne Cricket Club Museum Collection; courtesy of the National Sports Museum, Melbourne Cricket Ground. Acc. No. M569.1; photo, Erin O'Brien.) Decorated in enamels and marked on the base with an “A” in underglaze blue. This sugar bowl and cover, formerly in the Baer collection, are composed of a mixture of China clay and lime-soda frit in the proportion 60:40 (hydrous). This composition conforms to the 1744 patent of Heylyn and Frye, and it is proposed that whoever made this bowl was replicating the 1744 patent, which specified the use of Cherokee clay. This covered bowl is part of a partial tea set comprising a teapot and cover (see fig. 7), a cream jug, and three saucers. |
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