Of hexagonal shape crisply embossed with 'Moulding E', the continuous Chinese landscape carefully picked out in bright enamel colours, the front with two pavilions behind a terraced fence, a small figure at one side and a bird in flight, the reverse with a mountainous scene with a further small pavilion and a fence, the interior with a border of floral sprays and a flying insect within the lip, 11.6cm long
Footnotes
Provenance
With W W Warner Antiques, 2011
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.354, fig.b
Enamelled decoration is recorded on three examples of 'Moulding E' type by Dr Paul Riley, 'A Review of Wigornia Cream jugs', ECC Trans, Vol.13, Pt.3, 1989. The painting on the present creamboat is unusually strong and relates to an example of 'Moulding H' sold by Bonhams on 13 September 2006, lot 133.