The can has a double scroll handle and is painted in blue with two spotted deer, possibly fallow deer, under a pine tree.
No marks
Height 5.4 cm
Condition: Very good. Base partly glazed, some wear to glaze in interior.
This delightful can, with uncommon decoration, is of attractive small size. For a can of similar size and decoration, see Woolley and Wallis, Glass, English and European Ceramics, 1st March 2005, lot 401. See also Phillips, The Watney Collection Part I, 22nd September 1999, lot 14 for a teapot similarly decorated. The Chinese origin of this pattern is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, ‘Oriental Export Market Porcelain’, plate 30.
£690