Tea Service: Sugar Bowl with Lid
1887
Artists
Description
Flared form with two upturned applied handles and domed cover with ball finial. Celadon (grey-green) colored ground with round liver-colored reserve panels with white pâte sur pâte scenes of two flying fish with a sea monster head in water below and bird above, and on the other side, a monkey riding a dolphin. Border of seaweed around reserves. Lid decorated with four seashells and tendrils; crab under one handle and three prawns under the other.
Dimensions
12.07 x 11.75 x 8.57 cm (4 3/4 x 4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
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