Description:
Chinese export porcelain coffee cup with a C-shaped handle, decorated with a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette of brown, rose, black, iron red, green, purple, blue, and gilding. Hervouet and Bruneau illustrate several variations of these harbor scenes painted in the style of the German Meissen Factory porcelain of the 1730s and 1740s, which probably reached China through the Dutch East India Company and appear to have remained popular into the 1760s. The quality of painting can vary greatly. In January, 2004, Christie's auctioned a Chinese export porcelain partial teaset with the same style of decoration purchased by George Washington on May 1, 1762: "1 Sett Tea China- cost sterlg. 64 shillings." The side has two figures in a harbor scene in a gilt and brown lobed cartouche that is surrounded by an iron-red, rose, and gilt Meissen-like feather flourishes. There is a scrolled gilt band around the top over by a black line.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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