A pair of famille rose silver shaped sauceboats

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A pair of famille rose silver shaped sauceboats
with lobed sides, painted and gilt with groups of figures and boys tending water buffalo on riverbanks before sampans, decorated to the rears with bands of bird cartouches on floral grounds -- 7½in. (19cms) long, 18th century, (one with tiny rim chip, gilt rubbing). See Colour Plate 93 (2)

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