A CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE-ROSE EGGSHELL TEABOWL AND RUBY-BACK SAUCER circa 1730

each with a millefleurs ground reserved with three gilt-foliate-edged panels of flowers above a grisaille cell diaper border encircling on the saucer a central hexafoil panel of flowers around a rock repeated on the interior of the teabowl, the rim of each with a gilt floral border showing traces of iron-red cold decoration, and the interior rim of the teabowl with a grisaille and iron-red trellis diaper band.

The Cumberbatch Collection, London, no. 149
The William Martin-Hurst Collection, no. 354
Hancock, St. James's, London

London, Dorchester Hotel, Loan Exhibition, May 28 to June 18, 1931, no. 384

George C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, pl. IV (bottom, right)

Teabowl in good condition, saucer with slight wear to gilding on rim otherwise in good condition. Martin Hurst sticker on both, Wm. Berbatch Collection sticker on both, Hancock sticker on saucer, Dorchester Hotel exhibition sticker on both.
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