A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER AND SAUCER, for the European market and probably painted after a French print, the cover and saucer each with a central roundel of a Western crowned King and Queen, within ten radiating panels alternately of a kneeling Chinese man and a shrub, the beaker with the ten panels elongated beneath an inscription L'empire de la vertu est establis jusq'au bout de l'univers (sic) the King and Queen repeated in a panel beneath the word L'empire (foot flake) Kangxi (2)

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER AND SAUCER, for the European market and probably painted after a French print, the cover and saucer each with a central roundel of a Western crowned King and Queen, within ten radiating panels alternately of a kneeling Chinese man and a shrub, the beaker with the ten panels elongated beneath an inscription L'empire de la vertu est establis jusq'au bout de l'univers (sic) the King and Queen repeated in a panel beneath the word L'empire (foot flake) Kangxi (2)

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A similar beaker, cover and saucer from the De Sypesteyn Museum, Loosdrecht, is illustrated by Scheurleer, op.cit, fig. 130; see also a pair from the Basil and Hon. Mrs Ionides Collection, illustrated by Jourdain and Jenyns, op.cit. p. 114, fig. 81; and the set from Musee Guimet, in Hervouet and Bruneau, op.cit, p. 226, no. 9.94 Beurdeley, op.cit., cat. 17 illustrates a similar beaker and cover formerly in the C.T. Loo Collection, and notes that 'Tradition holds that the first model was intended for Louis XIV, direct descandant of Louis IX' The inscription may be translated 'The Empire of Virtue is established till the end of the universe'

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