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Shaving dish SM B27. ©Sir John Soane's Museum. Photo: Lewis Bush.
Shaving dish, Chinese
c.1760
China
Hard-paste porcelain
Width: 10in, maximum
Width: 13in, maximum
Width: 13in, maximum
Museum number: B27
On display: Bath Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
The basin is decorated with figures; on the left two large jars and a seated figure on a chair (or throne?) at a desk. Lower right: a boy dancing, holding a pole. The wide border consists of gilt scrolls outlined in red/brown and cartouches containing red and gold birds perching on flowering branches. The raised lip around the rim is outlined in reddish-brown on the inside. Like the other shaving bowl in Soane's collection, B10, this is a Chinese version of an English form.
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