Sugar Bowl with Cover
Chinese export porcelain
1790–1800
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, and gilding
- Dimensions
- 14 × 14.9 × 11.3 cm (5 1/2 × 5 7/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- sugar bowl
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
enamelsugar bowlporcelainhard-paste porcelainsailing vesselchinese export porcelainchinese exportceramicsmoldingpotteryenamelingdecorative artsExport porcelainart of the americasAmerican marketgilding
About
This sugar bowl, decorated with an American sailing vessel, is among the many examples of souvenir ware that captains and trade merchants special ordered from the porcelain shops in Canton to commemorate their journeys. The decoration on these pieces is of a more personal character than the average stock porcelain. Motifs for commemorative ware were most often copied from illustrations on mercantile and cargo documentation and thus probably bore little resemblance to the actual vessels.
