CIRCA 1740

細節

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

來源

Purchased from The Chinese Porcelain Company.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品專文

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.