Porcelain bowl, Lowestoft, ca. 1780–1785

The bowl pictured was made between 1780 and 1785 at the Lowestoft porcelain factory in eastern England. It shows the motif of a Chinese woman and a boy under a tree. On the other side of the bowl is a man holding a parrot. The Lowestoft Porcelain Factory was a soft-paste porcelain factory in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England that existed from 1757 to 1802. The main products were household items such as pots, teapots, and jugs, increasingly with Chinese motifs toward the end of the 18th century.

Basin, soft porcelain painted with enamel paints, height: 7 cm, diameter: 15.2 cm, ca. 1780–1785, manufacturer: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory, England; image source: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inventory number C.251-1924, https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O227801/basin-lowestoft-porcelain-factory/.