Box - Guangxu period (1875 - 1908) - late Qing Dynasty Cricket famille rose porcelain cricket box - Porcelain

Very beautiful Guangxu period (1875 - 1908) famille rose porcelain cricket box.

Porcelain cricket box with enamel polychrome decoration in the Famille Rose style with a scene of a child and his mother in a rocky landscape. Further, a verse poem written in Chinese calligraphy to the body. The top has foliate design with flower pattern air holes.

Length - 12 cm, depth - 7.2 cm, height - 4 cm.

Cricket boxes are traditional Chinese cricket homes, a place to keep the pet crickets. Ceramic jars are used as permanent cricket homes in winter and summer, respectively. For at least 1,000 years, crickets have been kept as pets in China for one of two reasons: for their song or, more commonly, for fighting. Cricket fighting was a past-time pursued by people of various classes, including wealthy merchants and the social elite.

Some wear, firing chip on lower edge and some firing spots on back (please see detailed photos). Otherwise very fine condition overall.

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