This salt cellar produced for export at the Dehua kilns is decorated in relief with floral scrolls around its waist, and triangular motifs around the base. Dehua, located on the southeast coast of Fujian province, is well known for its production of white porcelain, known to Europeans as 'blanc de Chine'. The earliest Dehua porcelain was produced as early as the 14th century but the production and quality of these porcelain peaked around the 17th and 18th centuries.
