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Description:
Chinese export porcelain spittoon or spit pot or cuspidor with a scalloped and fluted rim and loop handle decorated in Famille rose palette in pink, yellow, green and blue with scattered floral sprays. Small spittoons or spitting pots were produced for individual use in many ceramic materials from the end of the 17th through the 19th centuries; spitting was a wide spread practice until the realization of the health hazards of spitting and the rise of medical bacteriology and preventive medicine.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain

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