French Porcelain Kakiemon Cachepot, Chantilly, circa 1740

Chinese Export cachepot, circa 1775.

Chintz pattern painted with panels of three variant frizes colores, one with variant diaper cartouches entwined with gilt and berried laurel, the second with entwined rose vines rese...

Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Cachepot, Circa 1750-60   The very large Chinese Export porcelain cachepot is of cylindrical form with an ...

The mark on the underneath (see image) indicates that this spittoon is of Japanese Imari porcelain, manufactured circa 1880, and made specifically for the American market for the preponderance of bars and saloons at that time. These were popular from 1865 to the turn of the century; this is a particularly fancy and elaborate example. Note the copious and highly detailed and beautiful floral decoration to the inside of the upper portion of the spittoon; pretty fancy for something meant for spit and saliva! Fantastic and all original condition with no cracks, no chips and very bright paint in sharp colors of blue rust and pink, and meticulously painted in a floral pattern. Several of these would have been “stationed” in strategic places within a saloon. This is a wonderful piece of porcelain, and quality item of saloon and Western United States history...