19th Century French Covered Onion Soup Bowl

Circa Mid 19th Century: While the English potters were making mocha and other related dipped and engine turned wares, their French contemporaries were also churning out decorated tableware for the American market, and this spectacular French covered onion soup bowl with pink and brown marbelized slip decoration is a terrific example of this output. Measuring 4 3/4" tall to the top of the finial and 6 1/4" from handle to handle, this beautiful footed bowl with applied handle and finial is in amazingly as fired condition with no chips, cracks, or repairs and only typical factory firing anomolies. This is a seldom found form that Homer Laughlin tableware collectors will recognize. it is obvious that English potter Frederick Rhead modeled his rare covered onion soup bowl in the 1930s for Homer Laughlin's iconic Fiesta dinnerware line after the 19th century French form.