Description:
Chinese export porcelain circular butter tub or butter dish, cover with a round knop decorated with a small flower, and stand decorated in underglaze blue with bands of scrolling floral sprays around the cover and tub, and bands of a trellis and diamond pattern around the rims of the cover and tub; and the stand with two groups of floral sprays in the well and a trellis and diamond band around the rim. This tub is very similar in shape to "Nanking Cargo" butter tubs recovered from the wreck of the Dutch East Indiaman Geldermalsen which sank in the South China Seas in 1752, although there no under-dishes were recovered. According to Christiaan Jorg, the VOC (Dutch East India Company) imported butter pots, round pots with lids and saucers until 1745. Later dishes or tubs also became fashionable, which were made to order after a given model - without a saucer. Butter dishes continued to be part of the usual assortment until 1789, at first always round, but after 1750, oval models are also found - sometimes part of a large dinner service. Frits and small chip filled, otherwise perfect.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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