Live Auction 2859The Decorative Arts Sale
A Chinese export famille rose small teabowl and saucer
Lot 75

A Chinese export famille rose small teabowl and saucer

CIRCA 1730-35

Closed23 March 2011

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EUR 1,500

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A Chinese export famille rose small teabowl and saucer
Circa 1730-35
Each painted with a European sailing ship and a Chinese junk coursing over foamy green waves towards a pagoda, all within a diaper border reserved with landscape cartouches (2)

The saucer with label Stodel Collection p.c.r. 15...

Specialist note

For a teapot and plate with similar decoration, see David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, London, 1978, p. 218, nr. 215. The authors state that this scene was intended to represent shipping on the Pearl River.