Object Details
- Description
- Raised, spiral-lobed, pear-shaped cream pitcher with Chinoiserie decoration, including a cast and applied S-curve dragon handle and ten chased and repousse panels on body depicting bamboo, peonies, flowering prunus branches and dragons, all on a finely-textured ground; Oriental scenes on two side panels feature a man travelling by donkey opposite a scholar and servant fishing. Floral-decorated inset spout has flared lip. Slightly concave bottom is struck on underside with two marks, "TC" and a Chinese ideogram, both in rounded rectangles. Part of a four-piece service (kettle, stand and burner counted as one piece), DL*62.0334A-D.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1906
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wallace Dunn, Jr., in memory of Lillian Lash and Arthur Wallace Dunn
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 12.3825 cm x 13.6525 cm x 9.525 cm
- Object Name
- creamer
