An Antique Chinese Hand Painted Ceramic Cricket Box

Chinese Antique Famille Rose porcelain cricket box (sometimes called a cricket cage or cricket bowl), dating back to the 19th-century late Qing Dynasty. A charming antique, hand painted in famille rose enamels with a scene of three figures in a garden — a seated figure at a table with a vase of flowers, flanked by two standing attendants, all in soft pinks, turquoise, and blue against the white ground.

Crickets were treasured in China, kept for their song, and housed in little boxes and cages like this one. Today it makes a wonderful small catch-all — for rings on a nightstand, paper clips on a desk, or simply sitting pretty on a stack of books, exactly as shown. Imported from England.

Dimensions:
Height: 1.5"
Width: 4.5"
Depth: 2.75"
Weight: 0.5 lb