Description:
Chinese export porcelain rectangular famille rose soup tureen with chamfered sides, iron-red rabbit-head handles, and a cover with a pomegranite knop with an openwork stem knop half-painted in iron red and green, decorated in the Famille rose palette of rose, iron red, blue, green, purple, brown, black, and gilding. This is an example of a Western form, probably based on European silver designs, adapted in Chinese porcelain. Both center sides of the tureen and cover have flower bouquets, and bands of iron-red, blue-green, rose, purple, blue floral bouquets connected by blue "dotted" swags and purple swags and abstract flowers, and some gilding around their rims. As the cover border is colored differently there is a possibility of a marriage between stock pattern covers and bottoms or different firing reactions to the purple maganese enamel. There is also a wave scroll iron-red border around the high foot of the tureen.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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