Teabowl cover

Description

Teabowl cover of blue and white porcelain, painted with a central roundel of a Western king and queen, possibly Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain: China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign, from the Vung Tau Cargo, c. 1690

Museum reference

A.1992.43

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Teabowl cover

Production information

China, East Asia

Date

c. 1690

Style / Culture

Kangxi reign, Qing Dynasty, Chinese (Manchu)

Materials

Porcelain

Physical description

Porcelain, blue and white; painted with a central roundel of a Western King and Queen, within ten radiating panels alternately of a kneeling Chinese man and a shrub

Associations

Vung Tau Cargo
Depicted: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

References

Sheaf, Colin, Chinamania: The Vung Tau Cargo

Christie's catalogue, The Vung Tau Cargo, Chinese Export Porcelain, Amsterdam, 1992, p. 116