A CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE-ROSE FLUTED TEABOWL AND SAUCER circa 1735-40

painted around the exterior or in the center with a lady reclining on a bed and teasing a cat with a tassel, the interior rim with a wide border of variously colored and gilt-edged patterned panels. Small chips.

Teabowl with a 2mm chip on the inside of the barbed tip over the sleeping lady, three miniscule frits to other barbs, saucer with a 1/16 inch chip on the barb tip at 7 o'clock and a 1mm chip on barb at 3 o'clock.
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An identical teabowl and saucer are illustrated by Jörg 1989, p. 195, no. 73; and another was sold at Christie's in London on June 12, 1978, lot 54.