Description:
Chinese export porcelain ovoid-shaped tea canister with short neck, arched shoulders, and a gilt wave-scroll border around the flat base. This shape of canister and type of decoration with fruit and gilt double chain borders was most common in the mid 18th century, around 1735-1765. The decoration includes an iron-red and black horizon line with a display of citron fruits; yellow, green, iron red pomegranate; and green and rose flowers with green and turquoise leaves. There is a yellow butterfly at left. The top edge has a gilt double chain and flowers outlined in iron red. The domed cover with its mushroom knop is probably a marriage since the border chain does not match the body; the clay body is lighter, and the lid does not fit. The lid is decorated with sprays of peonies and green and turquoise leaves above a gilt double chain.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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