Featured Dutch/German bowl?

I’m a paleontologist and have thousands of fossils in in my collection. I know really old things. However when it comes to antiques, other than native artifacts, I know ‘nothing’.


I’ve always been curious about a broken bowl I found as a lad back in the 1960s. We lived in a small town on the German/Dutch border called Xanton. It’s as far north as the Romans got and there were Roman ruins. We kids would polk around and find the odd corroded coin and ‘bits’ of pottery.


However, one day I found a smashed ‘modern’ bowl. I collected all the shards that were buried in a layer of mud and glued it together. Yes, I did a crude job and it’s a miracle I still have it a half century later. Now it’s in a drawer here in Canada.

Anyways, no interest in value. Likely zero. However could anyone point me towards the age and origin? Is it Dutch or German? In the centre is a figure with a watering can. The green colours on the leaves are not precise. The ornamentation isn’t ‘sharp’ but ever so blurry. There is no mark on the bottom of any type.


Maybe it was just some pre war modern piece? I’m clueless. Any help appreciated. Please excuse the bizarre formatting...my first post.

 

Thank you for your help as it is much appreciated. One of the issues was trying to post more than one photo. I wasn’t sure if the total had to be under 1mb or that was for each photo.

 

lets see the bottom, marked or not

 

Nothing on the bottom. Kind of odd as just about everything else we have has some type of identity, symbol or whatever.

Looking back it’s amazing 13 year old me or a friend didn't just drop a big rock on it all.

 

Im just guessing here but English,1830s-40s ? Transfer ware that had some added dabs . I think its so cool you still have it 50 years later .

 

might be, but these rosebud ones were all over the place. and the bottom looks as fresh as a baby's...
and it's Xanten, which was liberated by Canadian troops; so possibly some souvenir brought home.

 

Welcome to the forum! I visited Xanten a few years ago back when I was studying in Dortmund. Lovely place. It was fascinating to visit the amphitheater.

 

In the style of English, but I suspect Chinese export. Late 18th. It's a tea bowl.

 

So pre-Franco-Prussian War, and possibly pre-Napolionic Wars.

 

If that is a standard pool ball in the photo for size it's too big for tea bowl I think. More a waste bowl or small punch maybe.

Pink/red/puce transfer with hand applied highlights it looks to me. I'm thinking 19th C. Not saying it's Hilditch but it's what first popped in my head as a type.

 

Dimensions would be useful. If larger, then slop or sugar.

 

Great story! You have got a lot of feedback on your bowl, and I know nothing anyway, but I'm so excited to have a paleontologist here, as I love fossils. I only have a few, but very treasured.

 

I've fossils collected in Saudi Arabia when a friend lived there. Same friend had a house with a chalk cliff at the bottom of the garden. Full of fossils, from when Somerset was ocean.

 

In Nova Scotia, they have a place called Joggins Fossil Cliffs, where the fossils lie around where they may. This was astonishing to me, as here they would have been curated and locked behind glass.

 

Our Jurassic Coast is like that.

 

Just got on my list. Thank you.