AN ARMENIAN MARKET SAUCER
AN ARMENIAN MARKET SAUCER

DATED 1794

细节
AN ARMENIAN MARKET SAUCER
Dated 1794
The center with the gilt script initials in a square AA, encircled by the Armenian name Avet(ik) Yarokht'iyan and the date 1794, all on a field of blue stars and within a series of neoclassicall borders in blue enamel and gilt
6 1/8in. (15.6cm.) diam.

拍品专文

A teabowl and saucer from this service was in the Mottahedeh collection, illustrated by Howard & Ayers op. cit., p. 473, where they note that the service "was designed for the personal use of someone probably engaged in trade in China"