A Chinese Crackleware Famille Verte Ginger Jar decorated with Warriors circa 1880

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A Chinese Crackleware Famille Verte Ginger Jar decorated with Warriors circa 1880

A Chinese Crackle glaze Ginger Jar of typical rounded ovoid form with a short neck decorated in principally 'Famille Verte' enamels with a continuous scene of warriors, some on horseback, the shoulder and base with incised matt brown glaze bands intended to imitate bronze, the base with an apocryphal four character mark within a brown glaze square. Paste of the foot and style of decoration suggest a circa date in the late nineteenth century.

'Crackleware' glazed pieces, usually with 'bronzed bands, were a staple output of the Chinese potteries from the mid nineteenth century onwards and were produced in a wide variety of mainly vase shape forms, both in polychrome and blue and white and intended as decorative pieces for the Victorian rooms of the West. As with other ceramic types, the quality deteriorated and this piece is typical of late nineteenth century productions of a more modest level of craftsmanship but still retaining a naif charm. As with many ginger jars, this one lacks its original domed cover which would have been decorated to match.

Size: Ht 12.5cm, Width (max) 12.5cm
Weight: 460g
Date: 1880
Condition: Very good condition, lacking original cover
Estimate: £30 – 40

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