A CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE-ROSE EGGSHELL TEABOWL AND SAUCER circa 1735

each with a gold swastika diaper ground reserved with three blue-edged lozenge-shaped panels of cocks below a pink trelliswork band around the rim, the center with a beribboned basket of peonies. The saucer with minuscule chips.

Philip Suval, Inc., New York, March 31, 1981

Both with wear to gilding on rim edge, saucer with miniscule chip to reverse edge, touched-up 3mm chip under rim at 6 o'clock, triangular section of rim restored at 7 o'clock, minor stacking wear, cup ok.
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