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 MoreSplashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings
12th-13th centuryChineseCeramic
18th centuryJapanese
Stoneware
20th centurySwedishMolded fritware covered with turquoise (copper) alkali glaze opacified with tin
13th centuryCeramic
13th centuryPersianTerracotta
6th-5th century BCEGreekEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with molded decoration highlighted in underglaze cobalt-blue against an overglaze yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChineseTurned bronze with incised decor
9th-10th centuryVietnameseEnameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze green and black enamels; with overglaze red enamel mark reading Tongzhi nian zhi within a double square on the base
19th centuryChineseNumbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 4 (si) inscribed on base before firing
15th centuryChineseTerracotta