A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT TEABOWL AND SAUCER

YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1735-45

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A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE EUROPEAN-SUBJECT TEABOWL AND SAUCER
YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1735-45
The semi-eggshell porcelain finely decorated with a lady gazing through the window of an arcaded terrace, stroking a dog with one hand and holding a rose with the other, all within a floral scroll band at the rim
The saucer 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sotheby's Monaco, 5 March 1989, lot 393.

Lot Essay

A saucer with this design is illustrated by Hervoüt and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, fig. 6.11, p. 119. A milk jug, coffee-cup and saucer with this design is in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, and were exhibited Chinese Export Porcelain, Hong Kong, 30 November 1989 - 27 February 1990, no. 40. An almost identical teabowl and saucer from the Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection was sold at King Street, 10 April 2002, lot 474.

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