Factory: Meissen Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels with Chinoiserie scenes in panels, lustred, and gilt.
Hard-paste porcelain, glazed and decorated with painting in polychrome enamels, purple lustre, and gilding. The pot is pear-shaped with a projecting lip, scroll handle, and low foot. Its high domed cover has a conical button knob. There is a hole in the top of the cover to emit steam. On each side of the pot there is an approximately oval panel framed by scrollwork in gold with small areas of lustre, and iron-red and brown enamel. Within each frame there is a polychrome Chinoiserie subject. One shows a Chinese man and a woman in a garden; the other, a Chinese man holding a tray, accompanied by a dwarf, flanked by furniture and a plant. A bird flies overhead. In the spaces outside the panels there are insects and 'Indian' flowers, the latter also painted down the back of the handle. There are gold bands round the foot and rim, touches of gold on the handle, and elaborate scrollwork round the neck and lip. The cover is painted in polychrome with a Chinese man kneeling by a pot on a stove, separated by plants from a dog and a dragon. There are gold bands round the rim and knob, the top of which is also gold.
History note: Unknown before Sir Richard Jessel
Given by Sir Richard Jessel
Height: 21 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1972-01-20) by Jessel, Richard, Sir
1720s
Circa
1725
CE
-
1730
CE
Accession number: C.3 & A-1972
Primary reference Number: 140201
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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