Saucer
c. 1840-1865
19th Century
6 3/8 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Unidentified,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
porcelain Chinese Export
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1980.84
Famille rose decoration; marley decorated with on-glaze enamel decoration of pink flowers green leaves, birds, and butterflies; the well decorated with four courtesans and a man with a horse under an architectural structure, with a wheeled cart and green stunted tree in background; with gold rim and thin gold line separating marley from well.
Condition: Perfect
A Chinese export porcelain saucer with a predominately green multi-colored enamelled scene on a white body. There are gilt lines on either side of the border of flowers, fruit, birds and butterflies.