Bottle cooler (seau à demi-bouteille)

From the Getty Museum record

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 distinctive style of porcelain decoration characterized by sparse asymmetrical designs rendered with a limited palette on a white ground. Here the shishi and nearby figure were copied directly from motifs on known Japanese examples. Coolers of this type were made in different sizes at Chantilly, this one to hold small bottles of wine or liqueur in ice, for use during the dessert course.