Description:
Chinese export porcelain teapot with cover, C-shaped coil handle, and straight spout, decorated with a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette in rose, iron red, turquoise, brown, black, blue, green, 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 sides have shaped, brown and gilt cloud cartouches with two figures in a busy harbor scene surounded by Meissen-like rose and iron-red arabesques. The domed cover with its gilt ogee knop is over a brown cartouche with a river landscape and Meissen-style flourishes.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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