Description:
Soft-paste porcelain bellied mug, with applied foot and strap handle, Painted in shades of rose, blue, green, lavender and sepia with a large peony blossom, a bud and leaves between trailing branches of blossoms and leaves growing from behind a pierced rock on a grassy plateau, the rim with a green trellis diaper border interrupted with three panels of blue demiflowerhead sprigs, and the grooved loop handle with a heart-shaped terminal. Condition: The rim fired as oval (rather than circular) and with a long crack curving toward the convex footrim; and the bottom of the interior with four glaze bubbles, one of which burst during the firing.

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

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