A FINE PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN SEMI-EGGSHELL TEABOWLS AND ...

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A FINE PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN SEMI-EGGSHELL TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
YONGZHENG, 1723-1735
清雍正 粉彩花鸟人物杯碟
of petal form painted in iron-red, gilt, blue, green and aubergine enamels, with a young woman opening the door of a bird cage, beside a seated man wearing a tricorn hat in a fenced garden with flowers and three birds, the subject taken from a painting entitled Le dénicheur d’oiseaux.
Saucer 10.7cm diameter

PROVENANCE: Formerly in the Hervouet Collection, no. 288.

NOTE: A similar teabowl and saucer formerly in the Nuno de Castro Collection is illustrated by Jorge Getulio Veiga in Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections, col. pl. 158 and another in Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes décor occidental, no. 4.26, p. 90.


Marchant: ‘Moving to Brook Street’
To be offered without reserve

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Good overall condition. There is one minor rim repair to each of the cups.