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A 'DAME AU PARASOL' TEA CADDY
CIRCA 1740
Of lobed-baluster shape, painted with the well-known scene after Cornelis Pronk with a Chinese lady reaching out to three water birds, her attendant shading her with a parasol beneath a band of underglaze blue and iron-red flowers; together with a hexafoil teabowl, with the same subject, but with a boy attended by a lady, a 'Birdcage' teabowl and a teabowl painted in the Meissen style with bird hunting and military scenes in cartouches
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high (4)

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