FOUR VARIOUSLY-DECORATED EXPORT TEA-CUPS AND SAUCERS

18TH CENTURY

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FOUR VARIOUSLY-DECORATED EXPORT TEA-CUPS AND SAUCERS
18th century
Comprising a famille rose armorial tea-cup and saucer enamelled with a coat-of-arms below a crown, within flower garlands below the rim; an armorial tea-bowl and saucer with Neptune and Mercury at either side of the arms and monogrammed cartouches at the border; a crested marriage tea-bowl and saucer; and an iron-red and coloured 'landscape' tea-bowl and saucer, one cup and two saucers with rim cracks and one cup with small rim chip
5 in. (14 cm.) to 4 in. (11.4 cm.) diam. (4)

Lot Essay

The first: the arms are those of F.G.A. Adeler (1737-1810). See B.L. Grandjean, Dansk Ostindisk Porcelaen, 1965, p.69, no.75 and fig.90. The second: the arms are those of Peter Fenger (1719-74). See B. L. Grandjean, ibid., p.44, no.26 and fig.12.

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