COASTAL BOWLS

摘要

In the past, ceramic carpet bowls would not have looked out of place in a suitably kitted out drawing room. Like croquet sets for the garden in summer, carpet bowls were ideal objects for taking some gentle, indoor exercise when the weather was less clement. What is perhaps less well known is that ceramic carpet bowls were produced as part of the successful pottery industry in Fife during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examples survive in Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery (KMAG)'s collection along with the more famous Wemyss Ware items.