Lot Essay
Compare the three tea caddies, all of different form and variously decorated, included in the exhibition, Chinese Painted Enamel, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, June-July, 1978, Catalogue, p. 25, no. 29
Property from the Estate of Marc Haas
A PAINTED ENAMEL SHAPED RECTANGULAR TEA CADDY AND COVER QIANLONG
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A PAINTED ENAMEL SHAPED RECTANGULAR TEA CADDY AND COVER QIANLONG
All four facets with concave centers, the two longer sides painted in famille rose enamels with panels of dense foliate scroll and the narrower ends with sprays of flowers and pomegranates, set between borders of tendrils in black on pale lime-green bands above and below, with ruby meander on a pink ground in the indented corners repeated on the sides of the cover below a flowerhead on the flat top
4¼in. (10.8cm.) high
All four facets with concave centers, the two longer sides painted in famille rose enamels with panels of dense foliate scroll and the narrower ends with sprays of flowers and pomegranates, set between borders of tendrils in black on pale lime-green bands above and below, with ruby meander on a pink ground in the indented corners repeated on the sides of the cover below a flowerhead on the flat top
4¼in. (10.8cm.) high