Bowl from the dinner service

Bowl from a dinnerware set with a pattern of vine leaves. The bowl is part of the dinnerware set with a pattern of vine leaves made in the porcelain factory in Vienna. The factory was established in 1718 as the second porcelain factory in Europe, after Meissen. It operated until 1864. Breakfast- and dinnerware, as well as coffee, tea, and hot chocolate sets, were the fundamental part of the Viennese factory's production, especially since the fourth quarter of the 18th c. The dinnerware set, part of which was purchased by the Łańcut Museum, was made during the period when the Vienna factory was headed by Mathias Niedermayer (1805-1827). The purchased part of the set consists of nineteen pieces: six semi-deep plates, small vases, two round serving dishes with lids, two square serving dishes, a boat-shaped serving dish, two oval platters, a round bowl, two insert plates. It is a set in the classicist style. It is decorated with a trail of light- and dark-green vine leaves brightened with yellow and with a scattering of such individual leaves. The bowl is round and deep; it has a foot and a flared lip. On the inside and outside, the lip is decorated with a trail of vine leaves enclosed in gilded borders and below that, with a scattering of single and double leaves. The foot is enclosed in a gold band. Barbara Trojnar