Description:
Large Chinese export porcelain cylindrical mug with an attached loop handle decorated in the Famille rose palette of blue, pink, yellow, iron-red, green and opaque white. Mugs were a common form made in Chinese porcelain for export to the Western market. The body of the mug is molded with decoration of scattered floral sprays and a large cartouche with a Chinese domestic scene of a woman seated under a tree and children on the center side opposite the handle. There is a repeating underglaze blue border of sunbursts around the rim; a blue floral spray down the handle; and a narrow blue band around the base.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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