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A CHINESE (EUROPEAN-DECORATED) MINIATURE TEABOWL, A SAUCER AND A TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Qianlong
The first painted in puce camaieu in the Meissen style with figures in harbour scenes within ogival cartouches, the interior with a flower and with gilt rim (gilding rubbed), imitation blue enamel crossed swords mark, 2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) diam.; the Dutch-decorated saucer painted in Schwarzlot with a church in a river landscape within shaped quatrefoil cartouche enriched with gilding (slight rim chip, gilding rubbed), 4 3/8in. (11.3cm.) diam.; and the teabowl and saucer painted in the Meissen style with an Oriental figure seated before a bowl on a stand and flanked by shrubs within foliage and flower cartouches, beneath an underglaze-blue cell-pattern border (gilding rubbed) (3)
Qianlong
The first painted in puce camaieu in the Meissen style with figures in harbour scenes within ogival cartouches, the interior with a flower and with gilt rim (gilding rubbed), imitation blue enamel crossed swords mark, 2 1/8in. (5.3cm.) diam.; the Dutch-decorated saucer painted in Schwarzlot with a church in a river landscape within shaped quatrefoil cartouche enriched with gilding (slight rim chip, gilding rubbed), 4 3/8in. (11.3cm.) diam.; and the teabowl and saucer painted in the Meissen style with an Oriental figure seated before a bowl on a stand and flanked by shrubs within foliage and flower cartouches, beneath an underglaze-blue cell-pattern border (gilding rubbed) (3)