Sold Ceramics - Sold Batavia Brown (Capucin wares) 1700-1800 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares -
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Object 2010127D
Teacup and saucer
China
1730-1750
Height of teacup 41 mm (1,61 inch), diameter of rim 72 mm (2.84 inch), diameter of footring 35 mm (1.38 inch)
Height of saucer 22 mm (0.75 inch), diameter of rim 120 mm (3.94 inch), diameter of footring 61 mm (2.36 inch)
Teacup and saucer on footrings, slightly everted rims, the teacup with an unglazed base. Batavia Brown covered with underglaze dark brown. Polychrome decorated in various, famille rose, overglaze enamels. In the centre of the saucer a single flowering peony spray surrounded by four small pomegranate-shaped panels and four small peony-shaped panels all filled with flowers. On the rim two peaches and two pendent leaf-shaped panels filled with flowering peony and chrysanthemum sprays. The reverse is undecorated. On the sides of the teacup has a similar decoration of two peaches and two pendent leaf-shaped panels filled with flowering peony and chrysanthemum sprays. On the rim four pomegranate-shaped and four peony-shaped panels filled with flowering peony flower heads. On the bottom a flowering peony spray in a single circle.
Batavia Brown is known in China as shanyu huang (eel yellow) or shan yu pi (eel-skin), that belongs to the family of tea-dust glazes (chayemo). (Sargent 2012, p. 533)
Condition:
Teacup: Perfect.
Saucer: Perfect.
References:
Jacquemart & Le Blant 1862, pp.77-105
Price: Sold.
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