Description:
Chinese export porcelain rectangular snuff box with bombe sides and a hinged cover edged in brass. The surface has a finely molded, white-on-white basket-weave pattern, which is decorated in the Famille rose palette in pink, green, orange, yellow, purple, and blue with floral sprays on the top outside and inside, sides, and bottom. According to David Howard, "the shape and molded pattern must have presented a considerable challenge to the potter (a similar basket weave was employed on plates later in the 1760s). It is clear that the Chinese were copying Meissen porcelain (or perhaps Battersea enamel), and these would have been brought by supercargoes to Chinese workshops in Canton. However, the porcelain would have been fired at Jingdezhen, even if the flowers were painted in Canton."
Subjects:
Pottery; Brass; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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