Bottle cooler (seau à demi-bouteille)

Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory

about 1730–1735

Soft-paste porcelain with glaze and enamel, Soft-paste porcelain, Enamel

J. Paul Getty Museum

A cylindrical porcelain bottle cooler is decorated with a blue mythical creature, a figure in a green robe, and a flowering tree branch. It has two green handles on the rim. The cylindrical bottle cooler has straight sides tapered slightly inward, a subtly protruding foot ring, and a plain narrow molding at the top. Two dragon-shaped handles are directly under the lip and the outside is decorated sparingly with three groups – an Asian male figure standing on a square of blue tiles facing a shishi (mythical lion-like creature), a different man holding a lantern over a potted plant near an architectural motif representing a window, and a large branch of pomegranates – all rendered in blue, turquoise green, orangish red, yellow, and black enamel. The ornamentation is inspired by Japanese Kakiemon ware, a d