Including a set of twelve teacups and matching saucers, each with cafe-au-lait wash to the exterior and painted in underglaze blue with a garden fence, rock and flowers; two sauceboats, each paintd with bamboo, pine and peony branches to the exterior beneath a diapered band to each side of the curving rim; and two covered oval butter tubs, each painted with flowering branches issuing from garden pavilions. Length of the sauceboats 8 5/8 inches (21.5 cm) Provenance: Sold 1986, Christie's Amsterdam Nanking Cargo sale, lot 5640 (twelve cups and saucers) and lot 4511 (butter tubs); the labels on the sauceboats no longer readable but conforming to lot 3671 illustrated on p. 167.
Including a set of twelve teacups and matching saucers, each with cafe-au-lait wash to the exterior and painted in underglaze blue with a garden fence, rock and flowers; two sauceboats, each paintd with bamboo, pine and peony branches to the exterior beneath a diapered band to each side of the curving rim; and two covered oval butter tubs, each painted with flowering branches issuing from garden pavilions. Length of the sauceboats 8 5/8 inches (21.5 cm) Provenance: Sold 1986, Christie's Amsterdam Nanking Cargo sale, lot 5640 (twelve cups and saucers) and lot 4511 (butter tubs); the labels on the sauceboats no longer readable but conforming to lot 3671 illustrated on p. 167.
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