English Regency Porcelain Slop Bowl c.18201840 Hand Painted Birds Pink 17cm Wedgwood and a sophisticated neoclassical silhouette

and a sophisticated neoclassical silhouette

The jug has a bulbous lower body rising from a slightly spreading foot

which is less frequently encountered than the more typical dark cobalt blue borders in Ashworth and Mason patterns and gives the plate a particularly dramatic

and movement

English Regency Porcelain Slop Bowl c.18201840 Hand Painted Birds Pink 17cm Wedgwood and a sophisticated neoclassical silhouetteAn attractive English Regency hand painted porcelain slop bowl, c. 1820 1840, decorated in the prevailing Regency taste with gilt scrolling foliage, perched blue passerine birds and stylised pink tulip like floral motifs, the foot with a pink ground band and gilt rim. The slop bowl sometimes called a waste bowl was an essential piece of any complete English tea service from the late 18th century through to the late Victorian period. Its function was