Description:
Chinese export porcelain, rectangular tea canister and cover decorated with a landscape scene in brown, purple, peach, and gilding. The body has arched, overhanging shoulders and a high neck. The center sides are both decorated with a roundel, outlined in gilt and painted in camieu sepia tones, depicting a western house in a hilly landscape. The decorative band edged in gilt and brown around the shoulder has brown grape leaves, bunches of purple grapes, and gilt vines. The flared and scalloped, domed cover is edged with brown leaves and grapes in an octagonal brown outline, and the gilt fruit knop has brown and gilt molded leaves.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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