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.)
Related Artworks
View MorePerhaps Jizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and decoration created through the application of ash onto the surface of the glaze
12th-13th centuryChineseOriginally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan
16th-17th centuryChineseEarthenware with cord-marked decor
2nd-1st millennium BCEChineseLacquered wood
21st centuryJapanese
Ceramic
20th centuryAmericanSilver
19th centuryAmericanTerracotta
5th century BCEGreekSilver
19th centuryAmericanBlack earthenware
3rd millennium BCEChinesePlaster
Painted plaster
Terracotta
4th century BCEEtruscan