Description: Chinese blue and white porcelain covered serving dish with Blue Willow pattern painted on lid and outside of dish. It has a stem finial and pig heads for handles.

History: Chinese export porcelain includes a wide range of porcelain that was made and decorated in China exclusively for export to Europe and later to North America between the 16th and the 20th century. It is typically not used as a descriptive term for the much earlier wares that were produced to reflect Islamic taste and exported to the Middle East and Central Asia. The new Famille Rose palette was adopted and quickly supplanted the earlier Famille Verte porcelains of the Kangxi period. Famille rose enamels for the export market included the Mandarin Palette. Specific patterns such as tobacco leaf and faux tobacco leaf were popular as were, from around 1800, Canton decorated porcelain with its figures and birds, flowers and insects. Many other types of decoration such as encre de chine or Jesuit wares, made for Christian missionaries, pieces with European subjects like the Judgement of Paris, or Adam and Eve, were made for the European market. Other examples include the Sydney punchbowls from the Macquarie era in Australia, 1810–1820.

Provenance: Arthur J Connolly

Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 8 | Height(in) = 7 | Width(in) = 14 | Depth(in) = 10

Size of Artwork(in): 7 x 14 x 10"

Artist Name: Chinese

Medium: Hard paste.

Circa: Circa 1840

No cracks or chips found. Some kiln imperfections such as pitting and small areas of discoloration.