Description:
Chinese export porcelain spherical-shaped teapot with cover, C-shaped handle, and straight spout decorated with a Meissen-style harbor scene in the Famille rose palette in blue, iron red, rose, green, yellow, black, brown, 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 sides have large gilt and black outlined cartouches with four lobes, one with a riverscape of tall-sailed ships, trees, and a man with cane, and the other with same scene but with two men talking and buildings in background. Surrounding the cartouches are rose, iron red and blue Meissen-like arabesques. The top rim has a black-edged gilt spearhead border. The domed cover has blue, iron red, and rose arabesques, ogee knop with some traces of gilding, and gilt spearhead border around flared rim.
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