Description:
Chinese export porcelain cream pot with a C-shaped handle, decorated with a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette in iron red, green, black, brown, orange, rose, 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 pot has a rectangular, lobed iron-red cartouche with two figures standing by a harbor with iron-red, rose, and gilt flourishes around the cartouche. The rim has an iron-red band and Meissen-style arabesques.
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