Serving bowl with Harlem Toile vanity scene

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A white bone china serving bowl from the Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges collaboration, featuring the vanity vignette from Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy design. This is a large, round, white serving bowl with shallow sides. Along the right side of the interior of the bowl is a vignette of three women in 18th century clothing performing their toilette. The women appear grouped together on a raised platform under a tree. A seated woman at the right holds a large, oval mirror for the seated woman at center to look into, her long hair loose around her head. The third woman stands behind her, helping to arrange her hair. Behind her is a vanity table with a smaller mirror and various accessories. The standing woman’s dress is blue and pink roses appear in an urn on the opposite side of the platform, the only color amid an otherwise black, grey and white design.

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