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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
20-Feb-2024
Lot No.
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Description:
A Chinese export porcelain European tea-bowl and saucer, possibly London decorated in the atelier of James Giles, painted after David Teniers with a woman drinking and the saucer with a man smoking a pipe, the porcelain Qianlong period 18th century, the English decoration circa 1768. Provenance: Robyn Robb London 2011 (11,500 pounds sold together with a Worcester cup which is lot in this auction). Robert Burke collection no's 231//233. A service in this pattern was supplied made up from from Worcester and Chinese porcelain. See the Worcester cup with Chinese saucer in the Marshall collection Ashmolean Museum Oxford, illustrated in Marshall H Rissik, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, 1751-1783 colour plate 9. tea-bowl 7.2 cm diameter, 4.2 cm high, saucer 12 cm diameter
Estimate:
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Category:
Oriental: Ceramics - Chinese