Sold Ceramics - Sold Famille Rose wares 1725-1800 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares - Page 3
Object 2010675
Tea caddy
China
1730-1740
Height including cover 130 mm (5.12 inch), height excluding cover 106 mm (4.17 inch), diameter 73 mm (2.87 inch), diameter mouthrim 29 mm (1.14 inch), diameter of footring 45 mm (1.77 inch), weight with cover 193 grams (6.81 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 32 grams (1.13 ounce (oz.))
Tea caddy of ovoid form on footring, domed cover with a pointed knob. Applied scroll work at the spreading foot. Decorated in various famille rose enamels with iron-red. On the waist a trellis-pattern border and around the neck pomegranates, flowerings branches and leaves. On the cover a flowering chrysanthemum spray.
The term 'famille rose' was first coined by the 19th-century French author Albert Jacquemart, who distinguished between specific groups in his descriptions of Oriental ceramics. (Jörg 2003/2, p.25)
Dimensions:
Condition: A tiny glaze frit and three spots of popped bubbles of glaze on the rim caused during the firing process.
References:
Jacquemart & Le Blant 1862, pp. 77-105
Price: Sold.
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