Asian Design Saucer Owned by Harriet Lane Johnston
Description
Chinese export porcelain saucer, hand-painted and glazed, one of a set of four. White body has conventional saucer shape with foot ring, up-curving sides and curve-molded edge. Top is densely decorated with heavily applied paint. Border is especially dense with polychrome repeating designs of flowers, leaves, birds, etc. Within a circle border at bottom center is a scene of 5 well-dressed Chinese ladies gathered on a porch or terrace adjacent to a dwelling. Similar scenes depicted on all saucers in this set.
Provenance
Saucer owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
Asian Design Saucer Owned by Harriet Lane Johnston
Description
Chinese export porcelain saucer, hand-painted and glazed, one of a set of four. White body has conventional saucer shape with foot ring, up-curving sides and curve-molded edge. Top is densely decorated with heavily applied paint. Border is especially dense with polychrome repeating designs of flowers, leaves, birds, etc. Within a circle border at bottom center is a scene of 5 well-dressed Chinese ladies gathered on a porch or terrace adjacent to a dwelling. Similar scenes depicted on all saucers in this set.
Provenance
Saucer owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
Asian Design Saucer Owned by Harriet Lane Johnston
Description
Chinese export porcelain saucer, hand-painted and glazed, one of a set of four. White body has conventional saucer shape with foot ring, up-curving sides and curve-molded edge. Top is densely decorated with heavily applied paint. Border is especially dense with polychrome repeating designs of flowers, leaves, birds, etc. Within a circle border at bottom center is a scene of 5 well-dressed Chinese ladies gathered on a porch or terrace adjacent to a dwelling. Similar scenes depicted on all saucers in this set.
Provenance
Saucer owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
Asian Design Saucer Owned by Harriet Lane Johnston
Description
Chinese export porcelain saucer, hand-painted and glazed, one of a set of four. White body has conventional saucer shape with foot ring, up-curving sides and curve-molded edge. Top is densely decorated with heavily applied paint. Border is especially dense with polychrome repeating designs of flowers, leaves, birds, etc. Within a circle border at bottom center is a scene of 5 well-dressed Chinese ladies gathered on a porch or terrace adjacent to a dwelling. Similar scenes depicted on all saucers in this set.
Provenance
Saucer owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection. Photograph album belonging to Rebecca Walton Greist, dating from 1919 to 1922, mostly photographs from Nanjing, China.
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection. Photograph album belonging to Rebecca Walton Greist, dating from 1919 to 1922, mostly photographs from Nanjing, China.
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection. Photograph album belonging to Rebecca Walton Greist, dating from 1919 to 1922, mostly photographs from Nanjing, China.
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection. Photograph album belonging to Rebecca Walton Greist, dating from 1919 to 1922, mostly photographs from Nanjing, China.
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection. Photograph album belonging to Rebecca Walton Greist, dating from 1919 to 1922, mostly photographs from Nanjing, China.
