A pair of Chinese blue and white salt cellars. Qianlong

The salt cellars are modelled as a octogonal container raised on a high pedestal above three scrolling feet. It is decorated in different shades of underglaze cobalt blue, the body with a continuous landscape scene containing peonies and rocks. The pedestal and feet have been moulded with grooves to make swirling line patterns and have been painted blue, with the depressions in a much darker colour.

COUNTRY : China
TIME: Qianlong (1735-1795)
MATERIAL : Porcelain
SIZE : 12 cm
REFERENCE : D834
STATUS : disponible
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The shape of this salt cellar is most unusual.

A salt cellar of this model but with a rounded container is published by Luisa Vinhais and Jorge Welsh in Out of Ordinary: Living with Chinese Export Porcelain, 2015, p. 78/79.

An almost identical salt cellar is in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, published by Litzenburg and Bailey, Chinese Export Porcelain: In the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, 2003, p. 219, no. 223.

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