Caughley Slops Bowl, Blue & White 'Pagoda' pattern, c1785

(p1122)

A beautiful Caughley slops bowl, made at the famous Caughley factory, c1785. This delightful slops bowl is beautifully shaped. It has deeply moulded moulded sides and smooth curving bowl. It is beautifully decorated with the blue and white 'Pagoda' pattern with gilt embellishments. It is from a large Caughley service c1785.

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Such a slops bowl is an important part of the eighteenth century tea equipage and tea ceremony, such slops bowls were used to empty the slop remains from the tea bowls during tea. Only one such slops bowl would be in a complete teaset, so they are quite rare.

This very pretty slops bowl is beautifully decorated over its entire outer surface with a blue and white print of an oriental landscape, which includes a large pagoda. There are islands with houses, rocks and trees. Between the islands sails a boat and there is a delightful oriental bridge crossing over the water. There are two figures to be seen crossing the bridge. 

There is a richly decorated blue and white printed border running round the inside rim of the slops bowl. The rim of the bowl is also gilded and there is a gilded border of semi-circles and dots around under the blue border decoration of the slops bowl.

The underside of the slops bowl is unmarked. However, this slops bowl comes from a large service which had pieces that were marked with a blue Caughley Salopian 'S' mark. This mark was used at the Caughley factory between 1775-90. This slops bowl dates from c1785.

A rare and delightfully decorated Slops Bowl. This pretty bowl is decorated in blue and white with the 'pagoda' pattern. It was made at the famous Caughley factory, c1785.

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Marks:

The underside of the slops bowl is unmarked. However, this slops bowl comes from a large service which had pieces that were marked with a blue Caughley Salopian 'S' mark. This mark was used at the Caughley factory between 1775-90. This slops bowl dates from c1785.

Condition:

This rare and charmingly decorated 'Pagoda' pattern slops bowl is in excellent condition with no chips, repairs or restoration. The gilt decoration is also in good condition with only very minor wear. The only extremely minor imperfection is a short and tight firing crack in the base of the bowl. This is only really visible from the underside of the bowl and unimportant.

It is certainly a very fine and delightful slops bowl for the collector of Caughley porcelain. An important part of the eighteenth century tea equipage and tea ceremony.
 

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