Lot Essay
These plates are four of a numbered service discussed by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol.I,p.214-215
CIRCA 1740
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Five blue and white "Tea Cultivation" plates,
circa 1740
Depicting four different scenes of the process of sampling and packing tea for delivery to the tea stations, the centre showing the labourers at work, all below a rococo border of cornucopiae shell-scrolls and lattice work, the bases numbered 3, 5, 12 (2x) and 21 (cracks, chips)
23cm. diam. (5)
circa 1740
Depicting four different scenes of the process of sampling and packing tea for delivery to the tea stations, the centre showing the labourers at work, all below a rococo border of cornucopiae shell-scrolls and lattice work, the bases numbered 3, 5, 12 (2x) and 21 (cracks, chips)
23cm. diam. (5)