Broken dinner bowl -- flow blue willow transfer-ware pattern with bridge and pagoda in background. Maker's mark "Beauties of China M.V & Co". M.V. represents Mellor and Venables company, Burslem, Stoke -on-Trent. Made between 1834-1851.
Donor:
Allen Pastron
Collection place:
CA-SFr-119H, San Francisco County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
San Francisco Wastewater Collection
Production place:
Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Collection date:
1987
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bowls (vessels), Broken (damaged), and Plates (general, dishes)
Production date:
1834-1851
Accession date:
1987
Department:
Nonnative California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1989-1990 #6: Allen Pastron (October 4, 1989–April 15, 1993), S1992-1993 #24: Barker Patrinely Company (April 15, 1992–October 2, 2000), and S2018-2019 #4: Bundeskunsthalle (August 27, 2019–January 16, 2020)