Details
Formed as a pomegranate and painted with floral sprigs, the cover molded with three further ripe pomegranates, a small branch and the calyx as the handles
7 in. (17.8 cm.) long, over handle
Provenance
Acquired from Earle D Vandekar, Ltd., London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1984.
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Lot Essay

See D. Howard, J. Ayers, China for the West, New York and London, 1978, vol. I, pp. 184-5, no. 181 for a similar pomegranate tureen, cover and stand.

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