Tobacco Leaf China
Another plate from the China Trade Museum Milton USA is illustrated by Forbes Crosby.
Tobacco leaf china. A testament to the design. See more ideas about tobacco leaf leaf pattern mottahedeh. Most tobacco was processed into cigarettes for domestic consumption.
Due to the weight the country has on the global tobacco leaf market fluctuations in the demand or trade wars such as the one currently raging between the US and China sends shockwaves through the entire industry and. Litzenburg Jr Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University 2003 p. TOBACCO LEAF GENUS NICOTINIA FINE CHINA BY MANN ROUND SERVING BOWL 8 14 INCHES.
In 1999 production of leaf tobacco was about 24 million tonnes or nearly one-third of world output. See more ideas about tobacco leaf leaf pattern porcelain. The design shows the leaves of the flowering Nicotiana Tobacco plant upon which a small phoenix perches bearing a flowering twig in its beak.
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the Nicotiana genus of the Solanaceae family and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. In November 2020 leaves from eight tobacco plants T1T8 with severe leaf curl and dwarfing as well as one plant lacking symptoms were collected from two tobacco fields in Puer Yunnan Province China. More than 70 species of tobacco are known but the chief commercial crop is N.
The pattern is thought to have originated in the 18th century in China for export to Portuguese and Brazilian markets. Earn 10 Back in rewards during your first 30 days as a cardmember 2 plus free standard shipping at Williams Sonoma. A large collection of 18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain from the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller.
The Peoples Republic of China China is the largest tobacco producer in the world. For an identical plate see Thomas V. The joyous exuberance of the Tobacco Leaf pattern is undiminished by time.