Small Sugar Dish

This is a very rare lidded sugar dish made by Chantilly in the 1730s. The lid and main body are made of soft paste porcelain with a tin glaze (to make it appear whiter to be closer to the milky white porcelain for the Arita area in Japan ) and hand painted using their famous and amazing enamel colors. The piece is hand painted in the Japanese Kakiemon palette colors - the main body with a banded hedge design and a colorful phoenix type bird with the lid having some colorfull plant covering most of it and a single cute little bug plus the typical turquoise finial. The porcelain from this maker and period is as good as it gets for me - nothing better really out there. The main body is in perfect condition ( the uneven top rim edge is the way it was made) and the lid has just a small chip to the underside rim as shown as well as a tiny rough spot to the underside edge neither of which really shows when in place. All in all something very special that one rarely if ever gets to see outside of museums. The pot and lid are 2.5 inches tall with a diameter of 3.25 inches. The piece is marked underneath with their red hunting horn as shown. Please email me for more information or other pictures.