A famille rose enameled planter


Republic periodPainted in bright colors with birds flocking around seasonal flowering branches separated by a pair of animal head and mock ring handles on the upper walls, the lower walls curving inward with further flowering branches painted above a gilt-painted string band, the glazed convex base centered with a drainage hole (wear from use, lacking drip pan).9 1/2in (24cm) diameter
|ProvenanceErick Ladd, collector & preservationist, PortlandHarvey Freer and Steve Maker Collection, acquired 2003Collection of Brooks & Dorothy Cofield