Ref: P639
£ 880
Price is subject to availability and market conditions.
Pair of Chinese famille verte square tea caddies, Kangxi (1662-1722), with chamfered edges and standing on four feet, both decorated in overglaze enamels and gilt on two sides with lotus blossom and leaves emerging from water, crane and a bird in flight, the alternate two sides with a cricket perched on a blade of grass beside dianthus and aster, all below a band of red stippled ground with plum blossom and bamboo leaves, the shoulders with alternating sprays of flowers and seed pods.