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Details
A grisaille-decorated mythological teabowl, coffee-cup and saucer, circa 1750
each decorated with a warrior and his driver in a chariot drawn by two horses in furious pursuit of a lady with long flowing hair, the teabowl and saucer with a rope-pattern border -- saucer 4 5/8in. (11.8cm.) diam. (3)
each decorated with a warrior and his driver in a chariot drawn by two horses in furious pursuit of a lady with long flowing hair, the teabowl and saucer with a rope-pattern border -- saucer 4 5/8in. (11.8cm.) diam. (3)
Provenance
See Hervouet and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a Decor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.322, fig. 13.109, where the authors suggest this could depict Hector.
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