Sugar Bowl with Cover
Chinese export porcelain (China)
1790–1800
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, and gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- 14 × 14.9 × 11.3 cm (5 1/2 × 5 7/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This sugar bowl, decorated with an American sailing vessel, is among the many examples of souvenir ware that captains and trade merchants special ordered from the porcelain shops in Canton to commemorate their journeys. The decoration on these pieces is of a more personal character than the average stock porcelain. Motifs for commemorative ware were most often copied from illustrations on mercantile and cargo documentation and thus probably bore little resemblance to the actual vessels.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
