Nyonya – Peranakan – Straits Chinese porcelain teabowl, blue & white with gilt, early 19th century

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Small Chinese porcelain bowl, painted underglaze with a peony, outlined in gold.

Marked beneath with underglaze leaf

19th century

7cm wide, 4.5cm high

good condition, minor signs of age

This is an unusual class of Nyonya (otherwise known as Peranakan – Straits Chinese) porcelain, with the addition of gold over blue & white. In ‘Straits Chinese Porcelain- a collectors guide’ by Ho Wing Meng, P.122, several pieces illustrated are from Penang, said to have belonged originally to a large set specially commissioned by a wealthy Straits Chinese family for its own use.

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