The café au lait bowl is one of the most intimate objects on the French table. You hold it with both hands to warm yourself, you dip morning toast into it. Its flared, wide, and generous shape is that of breakfasts of yesteryear. This fine porcelain bowl has a flared, truncated cone shape, resting on a footed base, with a body adorned with twisted ribs that give it a pleasant grip. The decoration, applied by chromolithographic transfer, depicts a bouquet of white flowers — anemones or wild roses — accompanied by red berries and blue-green foliage with almost metallic reflections. The rendering is of great delicacy. The gilded mark on the reverse side testifies to a quality French manufacture, late 19th-early 20th century. The porcelain is white, smooth on the inside, with that slightly creamy luster characteristic of fine porcelains of that era. Diameter approximately 14 cm, height approximately 8 cm. Fine porcelain, France, late 19th-early 20th century. An antique bowl that naturally finds its place on a carefully set breakfast table, or in a collection of French porcelains.
Additional details:
- Brand: 20eSiecle
- Colour: bleu-vert
- Period: Fin XIXe-début XXe siècle