Saucer

1780-1830

Measurements

1-3/8 in x 4-7/8 in (dia)

Materials

Gilding and underglaze blue decorated porcelain

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.

Accession Number

1971.1423

Provenance

Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner

Comments

This saucer, without its accompanying cup, has a gilt-edge scalloped rim framing the densely and well-executed painted decoration showing a conventional Chinese composition of buildings, a bridge over a waterway, a boat in the distance near another landmass, and birds flying.  The border underneath the rim edge is among the more complex renderings of this type of design.