Oval-shaped bowl with lid. On 1 inch base or foot with 2 gold-painted handles and indentation for spoon. Lid also has indentation for spoon. Large mushroom shaped gold painted finial. Detailed and multi-colored birds, flowers,a foliage on outer surfaces of bowl and lid. chinese export porcelain.
Provenance
Bowl 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.