This porcelain Regency bowl has it all: Pink lustre detail on the rim and foot and a good bat printed image of a country home and deer park. It is planted with Pulsitalla, the pasque flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris, a pretty spring flower, traditionally a sign that Easter has arrived.
 
The bute-shaped bowl is most likely made in the Rathbone factory of Tunstall, Staffordshire between 1810-1820 although the bowl is unmarked. Newhall and Spode were also making bat-printed porcelain at this time as well although Rathbone were fond of combining it with pink lustre such as this. Bat printing or black printing, was a technique for transferring engraved designs onto china and porcelain that was invented around 1766. From 1820 it was entirely abandoned due to the complex nature of the technique,
 
The bowl is in excellent condition - no cracks, chips or crazing - just some of the lustre has rubbed off on the rim entirely commnesurate with age. It also has a very sweet transfer pattern on the inside of the bowl.
 
Planted up with scented geranium P. Deerwood Lavender Lad which has pretty lilac flowers with a deliciously subtle . Our scented geraniums are planted carefully in their antique bowl, will flower all summer long and can be over-wintered back in their terracotta pots ready again to be potted up for next season. We enclose detailed instructions on their care and the provenance of the bowl. 
 
H: 8 cm
W: 18cm