A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'CHARITY' TEABOWL AND SAUCER

FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'CHARITY' TEABOWL AND SAUCER
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Painted with 'Charity' nursing a baby and watching over two children, flanked by large flowering plants, two large birds perched on the upper blooms
5½ in. (13.8 cm.) diameter, the saucer (2)

Lot Essay

A similar teabowl and saucer was in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard and Ayers, op. cit, vol. I, pp. 86-7, no. 44; and a saucer is illustrated by E. Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1978, p. 57, fig. 43. The large birds perched on over-sized flowering plants are similar to those depicted in the service known as 'Cuckoo in the House', which was also made in the Kangxi period.

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