Featured Found at a small village brocante last Sunday.

A hexagonal externally glazed blue and white bowl or cachepot. Internally and the outside if the base are unglazed, showing an off-white grey colour. In the found state it was dirty and heavily lime scaled.

The top and foot is canted outward, with the scalloped rim being folded inwards. Each of the six panels is bulged outwards, with two designs used three times.

Measurement across points is 15.5 cm, and 15.9 cm across the panel bulges. Maximum height is 10.3 cm. Weight 575 g.

There are no marks on the bottom of elsewhere.

Any thoughts you may on material, origin, age, etc,
would be appreciated.

 

Modern and Asian is as far as I'd go.

 

Probably second half of the 20th century Chinese, very pretty.

 

I’ve got a couple of these. I think I bought them in the seventies or eighties.

 

Can't help with info on your pretty piece but thank you for my new word of the day: brocante.

 

Thank you for your thoughts, which are in line with my own, however, I am surprised that China would be exporting without mention of origin.

 

It probably had a paper label that washed off.

 

Yes, you are undoubtedly right. I never think of paper labels. Possibly a generic article exported by many traders.

 

The ones I’ve got had little oval gold paper labels. I’ve a vague feeling they came from M&S. Who also sold Japanese bone China, too.

 

we had a local store called Christmas Tree Shop. The Belazekians who owned it would travel to China to buy items for the store. They expanded to several stores all over New England and then sold to Bed, Bath & Beyond. BB&B bankrupted it. This is so very similar to many blue & white pieces I got there during the original years.

 

We had one here too, one of the originals. I stopped going in years before they sold out, but this does look like the sort of thing they carried.

 

I agree.