CIRCA 1740

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE 'PORTRAIT' SEMI-EGGSHELL TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740
Finely enamelled with a portrait of Marie Therese and Francis of Loraine, each surmounted by a crown, within a gilt surround, the reverse of the teabowl delicately enamelled with a butterfly hovering above a rose spray and the interior rims issuing gilt fruit and flower sprays with added iron-red and grisaille details, bowl with rim chip restored, section of saucer restuck

Provenance

Purchased from The Chinese Porcelain Company.

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Lot Essay

Queen Marie Therese married Francis of Loraine in 1736, and it is believed this service may have been made to commemorate their marriage. A saucer from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam is illustrated by Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 230, fig. 9.107. See also D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, p. 224, fig. 251 for a teabowl and saucer in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht.

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