Coffee mug

The cup is complete, with one crack on the bottom and another on the wall. It is cylindrical in shape. The wall is almost straight, topped by a straight rim with a domed top. The cup rests on a flat foot in line with the wall. The base is free of glaze. The bottom is recessed and flat. The cup is fitted with a vertical handle in the shape of a shallow ear. Its ends are bent downwards: the upper end is short and rounded, while the lower end is elongated and pointed. The cross-section is oval. There is a glaze mark on the inner base of the cup; the decoration is painted on the glaze in polychrome blue, red, green, pink, black and peach. It is a Chinese figurative scene (Boy and the butterfly or Boy and the bug). It is visible under the inner rim, on the outer wall and on the handle. The decoration under the inner rim is a double horizontal fillet painted red and adorned with four lobed tongues with pearl. The decoration extends across the entire outer wall: it consists of eight small terraces, spread over several registers, and all made of superimposed triangular lines pointing downwards and painted red; three support figures, three others, stylized black trees, rocks and shrubs, and two support a red-painted fence. The central figure is a man standing three-quarters to the left, wearing a blue tunic, black shoes and a headdress painted black and red. In front of him are a terrace with two black bushes and a tree with branches adorned with red berries. In front of the man stands a child seen in profile to the right, dressed in a pink jacket and green pants; he is wearing black shoes and is stretching his arms upwards towards a butterfly in flight, with blue wings and a red body. The child is standing in front of a leaning tree decorated with red fruit. In the background are scrub-covered rocks. On the opposite wall stands a woman, also seen from three-quarters to the left, dressed in a red and pink tunic and partly hidden by a long green sleeveless blouse; the woman holds a long leafy stem painted black. The terrace behind the woman supports a fence made of two angled sections with a central post; it is flanked by stylized shrubs; a similar terrace and fence also stand behind the man. The handle is adorned with red-painted decoration: the center of the vertical part of the handle is adorned with a fillet, and the ends are adorned with a fillet, while the top of the handle is adorned with a plant motif followed by a row of aligned dashes and dots.