Chinese Export Canton Porcelain Sauce Boat Blanket Box cattle hide brown leather bottom

cattle hide brown leather bottom & hand grips

Made from buffalo leather

Sold as a set of 5

5" high (top of basket)

They were made of solid timber and quite heavy

Chinese Export Canton Porcelain Sauce Boat Blanket Box cattle hide brown leather bottom19th Century Canton sauce boat with a pretty scallop edge. Decorated in an underglaze blue with a traditional Chinese hand decoration set against a white porcelain ground. In very good antique condition. From the 1600s to late 1860s, Canton porcelain was molded and fired in kilns in the province of Ching Te Chen, then shipped to the port city of Canton for painting. It then made its way to the English and American markets. 7. 5" long x 4. 5" wide x 2"