CIRCA 1790

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE CRESTED 'HUSSAR' TWO-HANDLED CUP AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1790
Finely enamelled with the hussar seated on the wheel of his broken cart with his exhausted horse beside him, a puce trellis band at the rim interupted at the top by the monogram C in a shield below a crest, saucer with minor rim chips
the saucer 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh no.161.

Literature

David S. Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. II, p.377, no.371.

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Lot Essay

This scene was probably taken from a cartoon in a European print, and is close to a print by Thomas Rowlandson, English Curiosity - Or Foreigner Stared out of Countenance, which was published in 1794. See D. Howard and J. Ayers, ibid., p.377, where they sugggest that the crest may be that of Cust. A very similar cup and saucer is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and a dessert plate from the Reeves Collection, was exhibited Washington & Lee University, catalogue no. 182 (colour).

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