Description:
Chinese export porcelain baluster-shaped creamer in red iron, black, green, and gilding. Carp design in silver shape made for the western market. Carp symbolizes wealth and profit as the Chinese word for carp "li' sounds like the word for profit. It also symbolizes scholarly struggle for success. Large iron red carp with black and gilt eye painted swimming upward under spout with ink-colored vegatation. Gilding on scales. Either side has spray of iron red flowers and green leaves. Rim decoration has iron red band followed by iron red scalloped band and dots.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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