Small porcelain creamer (or milk pot) handpainted of a polychrome scene representing a couple playing with a little dog in a garden.

This creamer comes from China, produced by the East India Trading Company in the mid 18th century.

The personages are dressed in costumes of the epoch, middle 18th century.

In the background, we can see a riverside, with a village silhouete and boats.

A rococo frieze of flowers completes the ornamentation at the top of the pot.

The foot and the top of the creamer are ringed with bands of vermeil, posteriorly added around the middle of the nineteenth century, and decorated with streaks (bottom ring),

and a frieze of beads (top ring). They bear the silver guarantee hallmark, head of Minerva, and the silversmith's hallmark..

Expert : Mme Finaz De Villaine in Paris.

In very good condition, except an inconspicuous very small lack of glaze under the handle, and erasure of gilding at the same place (see our photo, very enlarged).

The handpainted ornamentation is perfectly preserved, and the porcelain is intact, with no chips and no cracks.

Height: 4,13 inches - (10,5 cms)