Spoons; porcelain, glaze, enamel; orange, black, green, on white, gold; a: 4-8/8" long; b: 4-3/4" long; Two goldfish, motif; "a" has darker orange than "b", otherwise the same. Gold worn; Design similar to 9-13490a-d Spoons, porcelain, with overglaze enamel decoration. Similar design on each: two fish with bulging eyes in coralt red (a) darker than (b), amidst small black and green grass designs on white ground. Gilt on rim, very worn. Undersides plain, small stilt marks, pitted surface in glaze. L. (a) 11.7 cm., (b) 12 cm China Porcelain with over-glaze corsalt -red, blank, and green enamel decoration on white ground.
Donor:
Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Collector:
Anita Day Symmes Blake and Anson Stiles Blake
Collection date:
before 1962
Materials:
Enamel (fused coating) and Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
spoons *design similar to decor. on sauce dishes, 9-13490a-d.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
a— length 11.7 centimeters and b— length 12 centimeters