{"product_id":"antique-blended-glaze-wash-basin-amber-shaded-semi-porcelain-embossed-panel-rim-american-c-1900-1920","title":"Vintage Amber Blended-Glaze Basin Bowl, Washstand Form, Scalloped Gadroon Rim, American, c. 1950–1965","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAmber pools at the rim and drains away toward the center, leaving the well the color of unbleached linen. The gradient is airbrushed — laid down in a single pass while the bowl turned, so the color deepens and thins in soft vertical striations you can read across the interior wall. Twelve molded panels rise from the base, each capped by a lobed arch, and the rim breaks into a scalloped, gadrooned edge with the glaze thinning pale over every high point. The amber stops dead on the underside of the rim in a line as clean as a tide mark; below it the exterior is bare cream, glazed to a wet gloss and webbed with fine crazing gone the color of weak tea. A flat recessed foot. No maker's mark — only two hand-drawn tally strokes on the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a mid-century bowl in a Victorian shape. After the Second World War, American decorating went looking for its grandmothers — the colonial and Early American revival filled homes with spinning wheels, dry sinks, and washstand sets that hadn't held wash water in fifty years. Potteries obliged with pieces like this one: the old toilet-basin form, slip-cast at scale, finished with an airbrushed blended glaze in the warm golds the era loved. The shape is a memory of the 1890s; the color is pure 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt carries no backstamp, which was typical of decorative ware sold through variety stores, gift shops, and furniture showrooms, where a paper label did the work and washed off with the first rinse. The tally marks on the base are a workroom count, nothing more. We list it as what it is — a revival piece, honestly made and now old enough to have earned its own crazing — not as the antique it was built to resemble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eField\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eDetail\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eObject\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBasin bowl in the Victorian washstand form\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaker\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eUnattributed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMarks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNone. Two hand-drawn tally strokes in tan pigment to the base\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eStyle\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eColonial Revival \/ Early American revival\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterials\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCast ceramic, clear gloss glaze\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTechnique\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSlip-cast from a paneled mold; amber ground airbrushed to the interior and rim edge, terminating in a hard spray line on the flange underside\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eForm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCircular well with twelve molded arched panels; broad everted flange rim, scalloped and gadrooned; flat recessed foot ring\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrigin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAmerican\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEra\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ec. 1950–1965\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDimensions\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e[PENDING — measure before publishing]\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSound and complete. Fine allover crazing with light amber staining, consistent with age. No chips, cracks, or restoration observed. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAvailability\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOne of a Kind — 1 Available.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA bowl this size earns its keep in the open. Fill it with lemons or quince on a kitchen island and the amber rim does the work a vase of flowers usually has to do; leave it empty on a dining table and the paneling catches low light and throws real shadow. It holds a season of pinecones, the mail, a stack of folded napkins. The color is the argument — a true warm amber that sits as easily against walnut as against white plaster, and a shade this saturated is genuinely hard to find without going gilt. And because it's a revival piece rather than a hundred-and-twenty-year-old survivor, you can actually use it without holding your breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47941564760169,"sku":null,"price":246.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/IMG_2628.jpg?v=1787469409","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/antique-blended-glaze-wash-basin-amber-shaded-semi-porcelain-embossed-panel-rim-american-c-1900-1920","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}