A CHINESE EXPORT RUBY-BACK TEABOWL AND SAUCER circa 1730

each painted on the interior with a butterfly hovering above peonies and other flowers within a pink dragon-scroll band and a yellow Y-diaper border reserved with three blue-edged panels of pale green, blue or lavender dragons. Very small rim chips.

The James A. Garland Collection, New York, no. 699
Duveen Brothers, London, 1900
The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, New York, no. 961

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1895-1900 and 1907-(?)
New York, International Asian Art Fair, 2002

Stephen W. Bushell and William M. Laffan, Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, privately printed by order of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, 1904, pp. 148 and 193, no. 961
Stephen W. Bushell and William M. Laffan, Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1907, p. 173, no. 961

Teabowl with a 1/16 inch chip to rim, saucer with a 1mm chip at 1 o'clock, 1mm flake to ruby ground on underside of saucer and a tiny rim chip at approximately 2 o'clock, otherwise in good condition. Garland 733 on cup, 699 on saucer, Morgan 961 sticker on both.
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A similar teabowl and saucer are illustrated by Williamson, pl. IX (bottom, left); and another, formerly in the collection of the Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides,  sold at Sotheby's in London on July 14, 1964, lot 477, subsequently was sold at Christie's in London on April 28, 1999, lot 136.