Tea Service
1887
Artists
Description
Quatrefoil shape. Celadon (grey-green) colored with squarish, liver-colored reserve panel in center. White pâte sur pâte decoration of dragonflies and butterflies in lobes with tendrils, leaves, berries and lillies of the valley surrounding reserve. Scene depicts a rabbit seated on a birds' nest floating on a pond with distant bullrushes, pulled by a duck with a strand in its beak. Gilded rim.
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